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🇫🇷 France has released a recently seized Russian shadow fleet oil tanker, Le Monde reports.

The outlet writes that on January 29, French President Emmanuel Macron told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a phone call that French authorities were forced to allow the tanker Grinch to return to sea.

The oil tanker, suspected of belonging to Russia’s shadow fleet, had been detained last week for legal reasons but has now been released. Macron assured Zelenskyy that France will reform its legislation to ensure it can immobilize Russian tankers in the future.

Ukrainian media report that Zelenskyy, on January 30, called on all countries with influence over tanker immobilization to take action, seizing Russian ships not temporarily, but permanently. This, he said, would make the situation much more difficult for Russia.

The Russian shadow fleet tanker Grinch was detained by the French Navy on January 22, 2026, in the western Mediterranean Sea, in an operation conducted jointly with the British Navy.

After the seizure, the tanker’s captain, an Indian citizen, was taken into custody. The tanker was brought to the French coast and run aground in the port of Marseille-Fos. Until recently, it was planned that it would remain there.

Namaster:
Macron is a MOWRUN!

mightyhaze:
Them send u come? Them kill 25 innocent ppl for borno ..but that's none of ur business... Na wetin happen thousands of Miles away be your headache. . Stop disturbing us here

WriterNig:

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Nigeria's problem is non of my business. It is an unserious country.

I only focus my energy and time on serious countries.

mightyhaze:
change ur name from writer Nigeria then

I'd suggest writer taliban

WriterrNg:

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When your papa change una surname to Taliban ISWAP.

mightyhaze:
Them send u come? Them kill 25 innocent ppl for borno ..but that's none of ur business... Na wetin happen thousands of Miles away be your headache. . Stop disturbing us here

WriterrNg:

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When your papa change una surname to Taliban ISWAP.

mightyhaze:
change ur name from writer Nigeria then

I'd suggest writer taliban

Nwaokunkpara:
France is just trying hard to be relevant on the table of international politics

Dear wike na your mate dey try be this relevant oo no be this enye ndi ebea,enye ndi ebea obio/akpor politics you dey play

WriterrNg:

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When your papa change una surname to Taliban ISWAP.

Freshandfitpod:
He recruit Africans for Russian war by deceiving them with a Job offer only for them ending up at the battlefield, that is how he makes him bread reason he is pushing Russian propaganda non-stop.

agentarcher:
Can you back your allegations with proof? I'm curious to know