{"id":46564,"date":"2026-03-01T07:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T07:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/belgium-detained-a-russian-shadow-fleet-tanker-defense-minister-theo-francken\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T07:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T07:31:13","slug":"belgium-detained-a-russian-shadow-fleet-tanker-defense-minister-theo-francken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/belgium-detained-a-russian-shadow-fleet-tanker-defense-minister-theo-francken\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium detained a Russian shadow fleet tanker &#8211; Defense Minister Theo Francken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Belgian armed forces, supported by the French defense forces, detained a Russian shadow fleet tanker. The operation was named &quot;Blue Intruder.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.unn.ua%2Fimg%2F2026%2F03%2F01%2F1772349389-3018-large.webp&amp;w=720&amp;q=75\" alt=\"Belgium detained a Russian shadow fleet tanker - Defense Minister Theo Francken\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A tanker of Russia&#039;s shadow fleet has been detained in Belgium. This was announced on the social network &quot;X&quot; by the country&#039;s Minister of Defense Theo Francken, reports UNN.<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Over the past few hours, our armed forces, with the support of the French defense forces, boarded an oil tanker belonging to the Russian shadow fleet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; the post says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>         <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/img\/2026\/03\/01\/1772349324-2692-large.webp\"\/>                  <\/p>\n<p>The operation was named &quot;Blue Infringer,&quot; he added.<\/p>\n<h2>Recall<\/h2>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked Canada and Prime Minister Mark Carney for a new package of defense support and a sanctions package against 100 vessels of Russia&#039;s shadow fleet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Belgian armed forces, supported by the French defense forces, detained a Russian shadow fleet tanker. The operation was named &quot;Blue Intruder.&quot; A tanker of Russia&#039;s shadow fleet has been detained in Belgium. This was announced on the social network &quot;X&quot; by the country&#039;s Minister of Defense Theo Francken, reports UNN. Details Over the past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-46564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}