DF Peak

Emmanuel Macron announced that the French Navy boarded the tanker DF Peak more than 450 nautical miles south of Réunion. The vessel is suspected of sailing under a false flag and transporting fuel illegally. Macron said France is determined to combat the so-called ghost fleet wherever it operates in the world, signalling continued action against unflagged tankers linked to sanctions evasion.

The French Navy boarded and seized the tanker Borus (operating as 'DF Peak') around 450 nautical miles south of La Réunion on Monday, on suspicion of illicit fuel transport. The vessel is believed to belong to Russia's so-called 'shadow fleet', tankers sailing under false flags to move oil evading Western sanctions imposed after the invasion of Ukraine.

The French Navy has intercepted a Russian shadow fleet tanker in the Indian Ocean. The vessel, the DF Peak, previously sailed under the name Kaliningrad and had falsely flagged itself as Beninese. Shadow fleet tankers are used to move Russian oil while evading Western sanctions and price caps, and the interception signals growing European naval action against these operations far from European waters.

The French Navy intercepted and boarded the sanctioned oil tanker DF Peak more than 450 nautical miles south of Réunion Island. France suspects the vessel, linked to Russia's so-called 'shadow fleet', of using a false flag. The boarding marks an escalation in European efforts to enforce sanctions on Russian oil shipments far from European waters.

French military forces intercepted the oil tanker DF Peak, sailing under the flag of Benin, south of the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean. According to Le Monde, a check of the vessel's documents confirmed suspicions that it was using its flag illegally, making it the latest ship linked to Russia's so-called shadow fleet to be detained by France.