The tanker Russia’s “Shadow Fleet”, which had been intercepted Saturday by the French Navy, continued its march on Thursday night (02.10.2025), a few hours after French President Emmanuel Macron’s appeal to “politics” to “politics”.
The Boracay tanker departed over yesterday’s night and headed southwest this morning, according to Special Nautical Site Marine Traffic and Vesslfinder, departing from Saint -Nazar (west) where The French authorities raised it and forced it to anchor.
It was the destination of then, India, according to the French authorities.
The captain and captain, both Chinese, are on the boat, a source in the case was told in the case that the two men were “transferred to the boat after the end of the time in which they had been detained”.
The captain will have to appear before the Brest Court (west) in February for “refusal to comply”, French judicial authorities said on Thursday, which began an investigation after the French Special Operations forces intercepted by Boracay due to “vigilance”.
The interception of this ship, which belongs to the shadow fleet of Russia, shows Paris’s willingness to “increase pressure on the shadow fleet because this would reduce Russia’s ability to finance its war effort” in Ukraine, Emmanuel Macron said yesterday.
The French president announced a meeting in the “next few days” of the Chiefs of Staff “in coordination with NATO, in the context of the coalition of the willingness”, the countries ready to provide security guarantees in Ukraine in order to “end up joint actions”.
According to the French president, the oil trade allegedly carried out by the shadow fleet represents “over 30 billion euros” for Russia’s budget and allows it to be funded “30 to 40% of its war effort” against Ukraine.
“Piracy” according to Moscow
For Russian President Vladimir Putin, Boracay’s intercept is recommended “piracy”.
“This is a piracy. Because (…) the tanker was stopped in neutral waters, without any basis. Obviously, they were looking for something, military goods, drones, or things like these. But there was nothing like that there, “he said in Sachi, in southeastern Russia, saying that” he does not know what he is related to Russia. “
The tanker belongs to a set of hundreds of secret ships whose opaque mode of operation – frequent flag change, owners installed in tax havens, often closed transponders – makes it difficult to identify and connect to Moscow.
“Every day, ten to 15 ships of the shadow fleet cross off Brest,” a military source told the French agency. At least 444 ships are subject to sanctions by the European Union.
The boracay, a 244 -meter -long tanker, It is known by various names, including “Pushpa”, and had previously been registered with seven registries (Gibuti, Gabon, Hong Kong, St. Kits and Nevis, Liberia, Marshall Islands, Mongolia), according to the website www.opensanctions.org.
There are doubts about his involvement in the overflow of unmanned aircraft (drones) that disturbed the air traffic in Denmark in late September, which was opened by the tanker at the time of the events.
Emmanuel Macron, however, recommended a “care” of a possible involvement of the ship in unmanned aircraft overflows and the investigation that has begun in France is not about the case.