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France has boarded ships from the Russian shadow fleet

The French navy has stopped and boarded the ship Deyna in the Mediterranean, which is believed to belong to the Russian so-called shadow fleet, writes French President Emmanuel Macron on X.

The shadow fleet is the nickname for the fleet of ships that Russia uses to circumvent export and import sanctions issued against the country after its invasion of Ukraine.

“These ships, which circumvent international sanctions and violate the law of the sea, are war profiteers. They are trying to make money and finance the Russian war effort. We will not allow it,” writes Macron.

In recent weeks, Sweden has also boarded two ships in the Baltic Sea that are believed to belong to the fleet and are sailing under a suspected false flag. 

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Sources: Ukrainian Prisoner in Hungary Given Injection

Sources: Ukrainian prisoner in Hungary given injection

One of the seven employees of the Ukrainian state savings bank Oschadbank who was deprived of his liberty in Hungary was forcibly injected by the Hungarian security service, sources tell The Guardian.

The syringe is believed to have contained a sedative that was intended to make the detainee more talkative during interrogation, but the man - who is diabetic - instead developed dangerously high blood pressure, lost consciousness and was taken to hospital.

A Ukrainian source compares it to the Russian KGB's old method of injecting truth serum into prisoners before interrogation. Traces of such a preparation were reportedly discovered in blood samples when the men returned home to Ukraine.

It was on March 5 that Hungarian anti-terrorist police stopped two armored Oschadbank cars full of cash and gold bars on their way from Vienna to Ukraine. According to the bank, it was a normal transport of state funds, while Hungary claimed that the money was going to the “Ukrainian war mafia.”