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“We see that the authorities of some countries, in violation of international maritime law, are trying to restrict the movement of our economic operators’ vessels, peaceful vessels, I want to emphasize,” Putin said during the final stage of the Pacific Fleet’s exercises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putin’s remarks come against the backdrop of recent interceptions and inspections of “shadow fleet” ships by European naval forces, including Italian-led European Union (EU) operations in the Mediterranean. At the end of July, the EU also adopted a port access ban on 41 more “shadow fleet” vessels and introduced mandatory notification requirements for the sale of liquefied natural gas tankers to Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putin has also voiced his concern over increasing tensions in the Asia-Pacific region due to “unprovoked” sanctions against Russia introduced by Japan. “Unfortunately, we are seeing changes in positions, and I would like to emphasize that these changes were not provoked by anything on our part,” said Putin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Russian President Vladimir Putin warned on Wednesday that Russia would respond in kind if Western countries seize its merchant ships.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned on Wednesday that Russia would respond in kind if Western countries seize its merchant ships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000122366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[151,101],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2000122365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-editors-choice","tag-internationl","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000122366,"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/08\/0ef46682692da941044e80a346fbd69b.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":1200,"height":800,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/08\/0ef46682692da941044e80a346fbd69b.jpg","width":1200,"height":800},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/08\/0ef46682692da941044e80a346fbd69b.jpg","width":1200,"height":800},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/08\/0ef46682692da941044e80a346fbd69b.jpg","width":1200,"height":800},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/08\/0ef46682692da941044e80a346fbd69b.jpg","width":1200,"height":800},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/08\/0ef46682692da941044e80a346fbd69b.jpg","width":1200,"height":800}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000122365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000122365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000122365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000122367,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000122365\/revisions\/2000122367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000122366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000122365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000122365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000122365"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2000122365"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2000122365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}