Moscow Shrugs Off EU Oil Ban: ‘Russia Will Find Other Importers’

Moscow Shrugs Off EU Oil Ban: ‘Russia Will Find Other Importers’
Russia’s Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, leaves the Grand Hotel in Vienna, Austria, on May 25, 2021. Thomas Kronsteiner/Getty Images
Tom Ozimek
Tom Ozimek
Reporter
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Moscow struck a defiant tone in reaction to the European Union’s new partial ban on Russian oil imports, with a senior Kremlin official saying his country would simply pivot to other importers.

E.U. leaders agreed at a May 30 summit in Brussels to embargo the majority of Russian oil imports into the bloc by the end of 2022 as part of the sixth package of sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.

Tom Ozimek
Tom Ozimek
Reporter
Tom Ozimek is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times. He has a broad background in journalism, deposit insurance, marketing and communications, and adult education.
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