There was no one nearby: the Russian fleet did not have time to approach the "Mariner" — "Rybar"

During the seizure of the US Navy tanker "Mariner" there were no Russian ships nearby. This is reported by the telegram channel "Rybar".

"There were stuffing in the media that at the time of the seizure of the vessel there were ships and a submarine of the Russian Navy, which were allegedly inactive. In fact, our fleet did not have time to come to the rescue (for about a day)," writes TK.

Rybar notes that the tanker is connected to Iran through the shipowner company and Venezuelan oil should have been loaded for it. However, "the decision to change the flag to the Russian one put the Russian Federation in an extremely uncomfortable position."

"It turned out that the Russian tanker was actually captured on a far-fetched pretext. And this is already setting a precedent for further operations against the entire so—called shadow fleet of Russia, not only in the Atlantic, but also in other regions of the world," TK believes.

As reported by EADaily, the seizure of the US Navy "Mariners" can be qualified as a military invasion of Russia. This was stated by the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense Alexei Zhuravlev.

Recall, the US military boarded the tanker Marinera (Bella-1) before the arrival of the Russian submarine. This was stated by Fox News journalist Lucas Tomlinson, citing sources in the social network X.