KIEV: Ukraine said Thursday it seized a Russian tanker used in a naval confrontation last November, prompting a warning from Moscow of swift “consequences”.Ukraine’s SBU security service said it stopped the tanker, the Neyma, as it entered the port of Izmail in the southern Odessa region. Investigators seized documents onboard and questioned crew members, an SBU statement said.Moscow responded by threatening Kiev with unspecified “consequences”.“We are looking into what happened to take appropriate measures,“ a Russian foreign ministry spokesperson told AFP.“If Russians are taken hostage, this would be interpreted as the crudest violation of international law and consequences will not …read more
Source: theSun
