VILNIUS (Reuters) – The Estonian navy detained an oil tanker in the Baltic Sea on Friday and boarded the vessel to inspect its legal status and safety, the country’s prime minister said.
The vessel, named Kiwala, was on its way to Russia at the time of the seizure, MarineTraffic data showed.
“Estonia takes suspicious activities in the Baltic Sea very seriously,” Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal said in a post on social media X.
(Reporting by Andrius Sytas, writing by Stine Jacobsen, editing by Terje Solsvik)
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