As reported by the Japanese newspaper Nikkei, citing data from the company Refinitiv, which monitors the movement of oil tankers, despite Russia's aggression against Ukraine, Asian countries continue to buy large volumes of oil from Russia..

From February 24 to April 18, a total of 380 oil tankers left the Russian Federation - more than in the same period a year earlier (357).

Of these, 115 went to Asian countries: 52 to China, 28 to South Korea, 25 to India, 9 to Japan and one to Malaysia.. Oil supplies to India increased eight times compared to the same period last year.

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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky believes that the European Union will still introduce an oil embargo against Russia. He stated this at a briefing after a meeting with the head of the European Council Charles Michel.

According to the President, such a decision should be part of the sixth package of EU sanctions..

" We call for a complete energy embargo, including oil and gas imports. Oil should definitely enter the sixth package, without it, we believe that the package will not be powerful, but will be empty,"