Since the end of February 2022, having unleashed a full-scale war against Ukraine and fallen under Western sanctions, Russia has begun to gradually increase the volume of supplies of oil products to the Middle East, Bloomberg reports..

In June, exports reached a record 155 thousand barrels per day since 2016. Analysts at Vortexa believe that in July the volume of supplies should reach an even higher value - 220,000 barrels per day.

Most of these imports are fuel oil, a smaller part - gasoline, aviation and diesel fuel.

More than a third of all Russian supplies go to the UAE oil terminal located in the port of Fujairah. During loading into storage tanks, oil products can mix, which further complicates the process of determining their origin..

According to oil analyst Turner, Mason \u0026 Co. Jonathan Leith, in the future, Middle Eastern countries may start supplying Russian fuel to the European market under the guise of their.

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In addition to the countries of the Middle East, China and India, after the imposition of an embargo by European states, have also become active buyers of cheap Russian oil.. Such actions weaken Western attempts to limit the financial flows of Moscow, helping it to wage war against Ukraine.. The two states have become an important pillar of Russia in the face of pressure from the United States and its allies, taking the so-called neutral position in the Russian-Ukrainian war. Read more in the article by Natalia Butyrskaya "