Putin banked €1B last year from EU fuel buys despite ban
Simple loophole in the EU’s ban on Russian oil allowed Moscow’s fuel to enter the bloc through foreign refineries.
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Simple loophole in the EU’s ban on Russian oil allowed Moscow’s fuel to enter the bloc through foreign refineries.
© Sputnik / Sergey Ilyin Russian President Vladimir PutinUkraine is being manipulated by the West into a kind of anti-Russia and is becoming a serious risk for Moscow, which constantly needs to deal with issues affecting its national security, according to President Vladimir Putin. Speaking on Friday, Putin also claimed that Ukraine's crackdown on opposition politicians means that a peaceful resolution to the unrest in Donbass is becoming increasingly unlikely. "It is very sad, but it appears that Ukraine is slowly but surely being turned into some kind of antipode of Russia, some kind of an...