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Putin banked €1B last year from EU fuel buys despite ban (www.politico.eu)

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Seven refineries processing Moscow’s crude in India, Turkey and Bulgaria continued exporting refined fuels to the EU.

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[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 months ago

Seems like the main goal was to just convince the public that Europe is no longer dependent on Russia for energy. In that sense they succeeded, since a lot of Europeans now believe this.

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