by Chris Black
Not sure why the US wasn’t able to predict this when they did those sanctions!
Russia has now become the main crude oil supplier of India, one of the world’s largest consumers, Hungarian daily Magyar Hírlap reports.
According to the data, export volumes were almost 11 times higher than last year’s shipments over the same period and exceeded shipments for the whole of 2022. Last year, India imported 33.4 million tonnes of Russian crude oil.
It is another sign that Western sanctions have had a much smaller impact than expected on Russia’s ability to export its natural resources.