US forces boarded a third tanker ship in the Indian Ocean that had violated President Donald Trump’s blockade of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean and fled the region, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
“From the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean, we tracked it and stopped it,” the Pentagon said in a post on X that included a video clip of US forces roping down from helicopters onto the tanker Bertha.
“The vessel was operating in defiance of President Trump’s established quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean and attempted to evade,” the Pentagon said of the overnight operation.
The Defense Department “will deny illicit actors and their proxies freedom of maneuver in the maritime domain,” it added. (AFP)
