The head of the European Union's foreign policy, Kaya Callas, announced that European naval forces boarded the tanker MV MIDAG in the Mediterranean Sea on November 13, on suspicion that it belonged to Russia's shadow fleet.

The head of the European Union's foreign policy, Kaya Callas, announced that European naval forces boarded the tanker MV MIDAG in the Mediterranean Sea on November 13, on suspicion that it belonged to Russia's shadow fleet.

The boarding, carried out as part of the EU's Operation IRINI and Article 110 of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, confirmed that the vessel was sailing under a false flag.