{"id":1342559,"date":"2026-01-09T19:56:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T17:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/there-were-ukrainians-on-the-oil-tanker-seized-by-the-us-diplomats-are-trying-to-contact-them\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T19:56:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T17:56:22","slug":"there-were-ukrainians-on-the-oil-tanker-seized-by-the-us-diplomats-are-trying-to-contact-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/there-were-ukrainians-on-the-oil-tanker-seized-by-the-us-diplomats-are-trying-to-contact-them\/","title":{"rendered":"There were Ukrainians on the oil tanker seized by the US: diplomats are trying to contact them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that Ukrainian citizens were on board the Marinera oil tanker seized by the United States.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurointegration.com.ua\/news\/2026\/01\/9\/7228759\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was told<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to \u201cEuropean Truth\u201d by the embassy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently, the Embassy of Ukraine in the United States is in constant contact with the competent American authorities regarding this matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, diplomats informed the State Department of the need to provide consular access to Ukrainians who were members of the crew.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As noted, further steps will be determined after all circumstances are established, and now the embassy is trying to establish contact with Ukrainian citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> The White House previously reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ssha-planuie-sudyty-rosiian-iaki-perebuvaly-na-zakhoplenomu-naftovomu-tankeri\/\">the United States plans to prosecute the crew of an oil tanker<\/a> seized by the US Coast Guard, including Russians.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ssha-zakhopyly-rosiyskyy-naftovyy-tanker-iakyy-peresliduvaly-dva-tyzhni\/\">the United States of America conducted an operation to seize the oil tanker Mariner<\/a> , bound for Venezuela and flying the Russian flag.<\/p>\n<p> Later, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zhodna-derzhava-ne-maie-prava-zastosovuvaty-sylu-v-rf-prokomentuvaly-zakhoplennia-ssha-naftovoho-tankera\/\">Russia reacted to the seizure by the United States of an oil tanker<\/a> flying the Russian flag &#8211; the Foreign Ministry demanded that the American side treat the Russians on board humanely.<\/p>\n<p> As it became known, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ssha-zvilniat-dvokh-rosiian-zatrymanykh-na-naftovomu-tankeri\/\">the United States is ready to release two Russian citizens<\/a> who were members of the crew of an oil tanker seized by the American Coast Guard.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that Ukrainian citizens were on board the Marinera oil tanker seized by the United States. This was told to \u201cEuropean Truth\u201d by the embassy. Currently, the Embassy of Ukraine in the United States is in constant contact with the competent American authorities regarding this matter. In addition, diplomats informed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1341524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76872,76873,76875,76871],"class_list":["post-1342559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1342559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1341524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1342559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1342559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}