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Kremlin Vows to Defend Its Ships in the Baltic by All Legal Ways

Russia will defend its vessels in the Baltic Sea by all legal means, the Kremlin said, days after briefly deploying a fighter jet as Estonian officials tried to halt a so-called shadow fleet tanker in their economic zone. 'A fairly wide range of means is available; of course, within the framework of international law,' presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday, according to Russian media reports. 'As recent events related to an attempted pirate attack on one of the tankers have shown, Russia has demonstrated it is capable of responding quite harshly.'