Cabinet pressed on help for US operations

THE UK was “absolutely willing to step up” and support a US operation to seize a Russian flagged tanker in the North Aantic, amember of the Cabinet has said, adding that doing so was in “our national interest”.

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Douglas Alexander said the ship was “part of the shadow fleet that funds Russia's war effort in Ukraine”. He insisted it is “right and reasonable” that the UK works with its international allies, like the US, to tackle Russian attempts at sanction busting, used to help fund the conflict in Ukraine. ‘The Scottish Secretary was speaking less than 24 hours after RAF surveillance aircraft and a naval supply ship,