The ship was seized between Iceland and the British Isles, Fox News journalist Lucas Tomlinson claims, citing officials.

The United States seized the Mariner oil tanker before the arrival of a flotilla of Russian warships, – Fox News.

According to officials, the US military boarded a sanctioned tanker between Iceland and the British Isles before Russian warships and a submarine arrived there. The tanker was previously called Bella 1, but was re—registered and became a Russian vessel,” Tomlinson writes in X.

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