Only 7 of them were seized… 800 ships from "Dark Fleet" Navigate the world
Rear Admiral David Baratta, the officer, said The American Coast Guard said that up to 800 ships belong to the so-called "Dark Fleet" Sanctioned ships are sailing around the world, and only a small number have been intercepted.
The President’s Order Donald Trump in December tracked sanctioned oil ships heading to and from Venezuela, as part of a campaign that has so far resulted in US forces taking control of 7 ships.
Barata said, during a congressional hearing: "We estimate that there are between 600 and 800 ships belonging to the sanctioned Dark Fleet, between Iran, Venezuela, China and Russia."
He added that the ships that were intercepted represent only… "A very small percentage".
Baratta said that seven "Dark Fleet" She uses various means to hide her locations and identities, speaking of "Forged documents, false ownership, and destroyed ship identities"
US naval force in the Caribbean
Washington deployed a massive naval force in the Caribbean region, attacked boats that it claimed without evidence to be used for drug smuggling, confiscated oil tankers that subject it to sanctions, and carried out a military operation that resulted in the arrest of leftist Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on January 3.
Among the ships that the United States confiscated in recent weeks was a ship linked to Russia, which the American forces chased from the coast of Venezuela to the northern ocean. The Atlantic.
Around the same period, the French navy intercepted an oil tanker linked to Russia in the Mediterranean last month and escorted it to a French port, after seizing another ship linked to Russia in September.
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