Putin aide says attack on LNG tanker in Mediterranean was an act of terrorism

Nikolai Patrushev, an aide to President Vladimir Putin, said on Wednesday that Russia considers the attack on a Russian LNG tanker in the Mediterranean Sea to be "an act of international terrorism", the Interfax news agency reported.

Russia's Transport Ministry earlier this month said the Arctic Metagaz, carrying LNG from the Arctic port of Murmansk, was attacked by Ukrainian naval drones and said the weapons had been launched from the Libyan coast.

-Reporting by Ksenia Orlova;Writing by Maxim Rodionov; editing by Guy Faulconbridge/Reuters