The Russian Foreign Ministry :
In connection with the forcible seizure of the oil tanker Mariner.
"The Russian Foreign Ministry expresses serious concern over the illegal military action carried out by the US armed forces against the oil tanker Mariner on January 7.
On December 24, the vessel Marinera, in accordance with international law and Russian legislation, was temporarily permitted to sail under the state flag of the Russian Federation and was making innocent passage in the international waters of the North Atlantic, heading towards one of the Russian ports.
American authorities have repeatedly received reliable information, including at the official level through the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, regarding the vessel's Russian affiliation and its civilian, peaceful status.
They could not have had any doubts about this, just as there is no reason to speculate about the tanker allegedly sailing “without a flag” or “under a false flag.”
International maritime law clearly provides for the exclusive jurisdiction of the flag state with respect to vessels on the high seas. Stopping and inspecting a vessel on the high seas is only possible for a limited number of reasons, such as piracy or slave trade, which clearly do not apply to the Mariner.
In all other cases, such actions are permitted only with the consent of the flag state – in this case, Russia.
Meanwhile, Russia not only did not give such consent, but, on the contrary, expressed an official protest to the American authorities in connection with the pursuit of the Mariner by a US Coast Guard ship over the past several weeks, insisting on an immediate end to the pursuit and the withdrawal of the unlawful demands made on the captain of the Russian vessel.
Under these circumstances, the boarding of American military personnel on a peaceful vessel in the open sea and its actual capture, as well as the capture of the crew, cannot be interpreted as anything other than a gross violation of the fundamental principles and norms of international maritime law , as well as freedom of navigation.
There is a significant infringement of the shipowner's legal rights and interests . The lives and health of the Mariner's crew, which includes citizens of several countries, are at risk.
We consider the threats of legal prosecution directed at them by the American authorities under absurd pretexts to be categorically unacceptable .
We consider the US's references to its national "sanctions legislation" to be invalid . Unilateral restrictive measures by the US, as well as those of other Western countries, are illegitimate and cannot serve as justification for attempts to establish jurisdiction, much less the seizure of vessels on the high seas.
The suggestions by some US officials that the seizure of the Mariner is part of a broader strategy to establish unlimited control over Venezuela's natural resources are extremely cynical .
We resolutely reject such neocolonial tendencies.
Along with the US administration's disdain for the generally accepted "rules of the game" in the area of international maritime shipping, Washington's readiness to generate acute international crises , including in relation to Russian-American relations, which are already extremely strained by the disagreements of past years, is regrettable and alarming.
The Mariner incident can only result in a further increase in military and political tensions in the Euro-Atlantic region , as well as a visible reduction in the “threshold for the use of force” against peaceful shipping.
We call on Washington to return to compliance with the fundamental norms and principles of international maritime navigation and immediately cease its illegal actions against the Mariner, as well as other vessels conducting legitimate activities on the high seas.
We reiterate our demand that the American side ensure humane and dignified treatment of the Russian citizens on board the tanker, strictly respect their rights and interests, and not impede their speedy return to their homeland.
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Russia is about to take MILITARY ACTION. It is coming. China too. So is Eran, Nigeria, Brazil, South Africa, Pakistan, Vietnam, and a hundred other countries. Get ready. I've warned all my American friends to pack up their shit, sell everything they got, and move the fuck out of The Shithole / EwwwSA as quickly as possible. WW3 is is already in its 1st phase.
I cannot wait for World War 3 because this whole fucking world has to be set straight : every MAGA NAZI DIRT DUMB SCUM CUNT, every zioNazi, every zionist-mafia mobster, every fascist, every anti-Woke garbage on two legs, every Ratbastard (RatpubliKKKan bastard), has to be hunted down and butchered so that we can clean and disinfect this entire planet. Their time has to, MUST, come to an end. Enough is enough already. Even according to the New Testicle, a mass butchering is coming. It is coming. Enough is enough already.
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