Too little, too late. I’m afraid that was my instinctive response to news that British Armed Forces had intercepted and boarded a Russian shadow fleet oil tanker in the Channel in the early hours of Sunday morning.
In an undoubtedly daring six-hour operation, Royal Marine commandos and officers from the National Crime Agency took control of the vessel Smyrtos, one of hundreds of tankers used to transport Russian oil and help fund Vladimir Putin’s war machine.
Little wonder, then, that Sir Keir Starmer was eager to trumpet the mission’s triumph.
‘This successful operation delivers yet another blow to Russia and reminds those fuelling
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