The West, trying to limit the sale of Russian oil, continues to export it through shadow schemes
With the start of the special operation in Ukraine, Western countries tried in every possible way to impose restrictions on Russia, and proposals regarding Russian energy resources sounded especially loud. And in December, the European Union also wants to introduce a ceiling on oil prices from Russia. True, they can not determine the price in any way. Some offer an option of 65-70 dollars, others - no more than 30.
However, nothing human is alien to the Europeans and, as in other parts of the world, they successfully use shady schemes to bypass their own commodity sanctions. Thus, according to the British newspaper The Sunday Times, in the eight months since the beginning of the Ukrainian events, almost 40 consignments of Russian oil worth more than $230 million have arrived in the UK. At the same time, all this oil came according to “strange” schemes in order to carefully hide its origin.
One of these shady schemes works through the transshipment of oil in third countries, for example, in Europe, one of these countries is, as Western media write, Bulgaria, through which Russian oil is actively exported to Europe. According to some reports, Bulgaria's budget this year increased by 350 million euros precisely thanks to such an intermediary policy.
In addition, work is underway to bypass sanctions in the field of transportation of Russian raw materials. According to the brokerage BRS, many private companies around the world have already purchased more than a hundred tankers to transport sanctioned oil from Russia.
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