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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Sam Bright

UK ‘helping Russia pay for its war on Ukraine’ via loophole on refined oil imports

An oil pump jack silhouetted against a dramatic orange sunset in a sky with grey clouds
An oil pump jack outside Almetyevsk in Tatarstan. Russian oil has continued to flow to the UK via other nations, data has shown. Photograph: Alexander Manzyuk/Reuters

The UK has been accused of “helping Russia pay for its war on Ukraine” by continuing to import record amounts of refined oil from countries processing Kremlin fossil fuels.

Government data analysed by the environmental news site Desmog shows that imports of refined oil from India, China and Turkey amounted to £2.2bn in 2023, the same record value as the previous year, up from £434.2m in 2021.

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