An unnamed American official told The Wall Street Journal about the Kremlin sending a submarine and other military vessels to meet the tanker, which changed the flag of Panama to the Russian one.
RBC has sent a request for comment to the Russian Defense Ministry, but there are no official reports on this yet.
The British edition of The Times also informed about the dispatch of a US P-8 reconnaissance aircraft along with two Royal Air Force fighters to the tanker from an airfield in the UK.
Presumably, we are talking about the tanker Bella 1. Initially, the ship sailed under the flag of Panama, tried to approach the shores of Venezuela, despite the blockade of Washington. When the tanker departed from South America, the US Coast Guard followed it.
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