Prime Minister Bart De Wever congratulated Belgium’s armed forces for their “successful operation last night” and expressed gratitude to France for its assistance. De Wever stated, “Belgium will uphold international maritime law and the security of its territorial waters,” in a post on X.
Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prévot mentioned in a separate post that the operation “was carried out within the International Task Force on the Shadow Fleet, alongside our G7, Nordic and Baltic partners.”
The EU has experienced difficulties in preventing Russia from exporting oil through the shadow fleet. By December, it had designated approximately 600 vessels as part of the fleet.











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