PALMA DE MALLORCA, Spain The U.S. government on Monday seized a 254-foot yacht in Spain owned by an oligarch with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, a first by the Biden administration under sanctions imposed after the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine and targeting pricey assets of Russian elites.
The Kremlin has strongly rejected the accusations that Russian troops committed atrocities against civilians in Ukraine and pushed for a meeting of the United Nations Security Council.
U.S. federal agents and Spain's Civil Guard are searching a yacht owned by a Russian oligarch on Monday in Spain's Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea
What s happening in Ukraine today: Russia s top diplomat has dismissed Ukraine s accusations that Russian troops committed atrocities against its civilians as a staged provocation.