The Guardian: The UK continues to purchase record volumes of Russian oil products, circumventing sanctions

Western countries, despite constant anti-Russian rhetoric and endless sanctions, continue to use natural resources from Russia, some directly, and others in roundabout ways.

The USA and France, for example, openly continue to purchase quite large volumes of uranium from Russia for their nuclear energy. But the UK, through certain loopholes, successfully uses Russian oil products, as the British newspaper The Guardian writes about.

According to the publication, London continues to import record volumes of petroleum products from Russia, but does so according to a certain pattern.

According to British law, from December 5, 2022, the country has a ban on the import of petroleum products from Russia. However, when Russian oil reaches third countries and is also processed there, it becomes, as it were, “non-Russian” and can be imported into the UK, notes The Guardian.

Let us recall that against the backdrop of London’s refusal to purchase Russian oil, the volume of oil imports to the UK from countries such as India, China and Turkey has increased significantly, i.e. from those countries that, in turn, have recently significantly increased the export of black gold from Russia.

Comments

[Lev_Russia]

They violate sanctions... We violate sanctions... Everyone violates sanctions... The legitimate question is, why are they needed...??? Well, why - to violate...

[paul3390]

Come on - can you imagine how much money someone made on left-hand deliveries? And I wouldn’t be surprised if these are the same characters who imposed the sanctions...

[Ghost1]

The nuance is that they started a military conflict, and we give them natural resources at reasonable prices.

[bayard]

Quote: Ghost1

they started a military conflict, and we give them natural resources

Why didn’t we impose sanctions... no, not on “respected partners”, they are not allowed and the wisest authorities would not dare. Sanctions on our own suppliers who are depriving the enemy of a strategic resource? And at a bargain price too?
But somehow it turns out ugly - there are no sanctions on enemies, we supply the enemy with strategic resources, the war is fake, people are dying in real life, but the most important thing is that everything is going according to plan.
The generous Russian Federation supplies the Armed Forces of Ukraine with oil products, gas and money (payment for the transit of that same gas) for the entire period of the SVO. So that he doesn’t stop fighting because of the cold, without fuel for armored vehicles, and because of hunger.

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: Lev_Russia

They violate sanctions... We violate sanctions... Everyone violates sanctions... The legitimate question is, why are they needed...??? Well, why - to violate...

I thought the same thing.

In such a situation, we traditionally scold our hucksters who trade with the enemy. And they deserve it. But, on the other hand, not the whole world is divided into enemies and friends. There is “both ours and yours.” What to do with them? “He who is not with us is against us”? We trade through third parties, they buy through third parties. Everything seems to be the same as before. Only more expensive.

I’m not defending our hucksters, it’s a matter of conscience for each individual huckster. I’m simply surprised by their sanctions, just as I would be surprised by a plump aunt on a treadmill, chewing a pie with jam as she runs. Moving just for the sake of recording in the appropriate reporting column that the movement was made - this is nonsense on the level of a team meeting from the film “Afonya”.

And yes.
A simple human question - why this game of sanctions and counter-sanctions?... 18 thousand sanctions - isn’t it funny for them to look in the mirror?

[Azim77]

Quote: Zoldat_A

A simple human question - why this game of sanctions and counter-sanctions?... 18 thousand sanctions - isn’t it funny for them to look in the mirror?

They hoped that after the imposition of sanctions they would be able to buy resources for pennies. They looked for any reason for sanctions. The calculation failed, but they have already done a lot to “bring everything back.” All the fuss in politics has been because of this lately.

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: Azim77

They hoped that after the imposition of sanctions they would be able to buy resources for pennies. They looked for any reason for sanctions..

Everything is as usual...

Quote: Zoldat_A

We trade through third parties, they buy through third parties. Everything seems to be the same as before. Only more expensive.

For that fought for it and ran.
But to admit this is to lose face, and the Boss in Washington does not order it. He himself is warming his hands on this.

[anjey]

Once again confirmation of the postulate of modernity - the ideology of Bubble is the strongest for this day (maybe unfortunately)

[Smoker]

From history: WWII - Japan did not want to engage in hostilities against the United States, the United States cut off access to oil - the Japanese Empire lost blood in the economy - Pearl Harbor happened....

[anjey]

The West with all its fiber is going towards confrontation with us, and in your opinion, how did we postpone the world conflict in this way until the last moment in 1941? Like, until recently, for example, the cars with grain that passed into Nazi Germany on June 22, 1941??? Stalin slept through the war then???

[Machito]

Stalin did not sleep through the war.
According to the works of Boris Mikhailovich Shaposhnikov, the beginning of the war is divided into several stages: the pre-mobilization period, the period of hidden mobilization, the announcement of general mobilization, which is tantamount to a declaration of war.
Hitler began a total mobilization of the economy and industry after the defeat at Stalingrad (he stopped the production of wallpaper and consumer goods). He is late. The USSR mobilized its economy much earlier. For example, PPSh was made in ordinary metalwork shops. Before you can win at the front, you need to win in the rear.
Ukraine will lose the war not only because it is inferior to Russia in all respects, but also because the Russian Federation produces more weapons, cheaper, and better than NATO and their allies.

[anjey]

Japan was an ally of Nazi Germany, the strongest in Europe, and the heads of the samurai were turned by the successes of the Wehrmacht, the USSR was a serious competitor for them, if it had broken quickly, the Japs would have gone to the Far East and opened a second front, they did not want to conquer the United States continentally, except for island territories, which it seemed to them more simple and acceptable to implement... Not everything is so simple, not all economics is politics ..

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: Smoker

From history: WWII - Japan did not want to engage in hostilities against the United States, the United States cut off access to oil - the Japanese Empire lost blood in the economy - Pearl Harbor happened....

What's oil...
Britain started wars over tea at least three times - the Boston Tea Party and two Opium Wars. Because of the tea, Karl!!!

By the way.
Evil tongues say that because of the Houthis, problems with tea have begun again in Britain... As you know, “English tea” does not grow in England. Is it because of this that the Indian finally transferred British industry “to war mode”?
May be, Alex (Bolt cutter) will tell you from the scene...

[Irek]

Of course, if it weren’t for the SVO, we would have tightly closed the oil industry to the small-shaven people.

[Vladimir Vladimirovich Vorontsov]

“The UK continues to purchase record volumes of Russian petroleum products, bypassing sanctions” -

"Being unprincipled in principle,
willing to give up principles
on unprincipled issues" ...

[Comrade I]

In your world order, this only works in one direction, I see. Does it work both ways or not?

[Starover_Z]

The USA and France, for example, openly continue to purchase quite large volumes of uranium from Russia for their nuclear energy. But the UK, through certain loopholes, successfully uses Russian oil products, as the British newspaper The Guardian writes about.

They are sanctions for us, weapons for Ukraine, we are raw materials for them - money doesn’t smell, even now, when that money has the blood of our military on it...
Everything is fine, is it as it should be?...

[rotmistr60]

Some continue to use natural resources from Russia directly, while others use roundabout routes.

Why not use it if possible, and especially through third countries. So it turns out that they are trying to put pressure on Russia with one hand, and with the other to rake in its resources for their needs. It seems like a paradox, but...

[pexotinec]

Well, just like Canada surrendered to the Russian titan for Boeing. They can’t live without us, no matter how they scream.

[sdivt]

The UK continues to purchase record volumes of Russian petroleum products, circumventing sanctions.

and against the backdrop of London’s refusal to purchase Russian oil, the volume of oil imports to the UK from countries such as India, China and Turkey increased significantly, i.e. from those countries that, in turn, have recently significantly increased the export of black gold from Russia

It seems to me that someone did not understand the very idea of ​​sanctions.
And this someone is not British at all.
Sanctions, from the point of view of the West, should in one way or another affect our economy, lead to Russia either not being able to use hydrocarbons as an income item at all (in an ideal case), or reduce the profitability of their sales. As one of the measures, the West suggested the idea of ​​a price ceiling for Russian oil
The European market is practically closed for us today; we can no longer sell directly there. But we have opened (or expanded) new markets for ourselves, mainly India and China. However, due to the imposed price ceiling, we sell oil there at a certain discount, which is individual for different countries and for each specific transaction. This discount for purchasing countries makes it profitable to process our oil and sell the resulting petroleum products at today's accepted world prices - to Europe.
To understand how well the idea of ​​sanctions worked, you can, for example, compare the rise in fuel prices. Fortunately, such data is easy to find on the Internet and is freely available. For example, the dynamics of prices for automobile fuel in the UK (since this article is about that).
So, changes over 10 years, pounds sterling:
Diesel fuel, April 2024 - 1,60; April 2014 - 1,36
Gasoline A98, April 2024 - 2,01; April 2014 - 1,41
Gasoline A95, April 2024 - 1,48; April 2014 - 1,31

Russia, same period (average data for the country, rubles):
Diesel fuel, April 2024 - 63,2; April 2014 - 33,3
Gasoline A98, April 2024 - 64,5; April 2014 - 39,4
Gasoline A95, April 2024 - 55,2; April 2014 - 33,0

Anyone can draw a conclusion whether sanctions work and who they hit harder.