Russia’s Crude Oil Exports to EU via Ukraine Dropped 15% in 2024

Russian crude oil exports to the EU via Ukraine fell by 15% last year from a year earlier, sources familiar with Russia’s energy ministry data told local newspaper Vedomosti on Friday. While the EU banned imports of seaborne Russian crude in 2022 as part of the Western campaign to stifle Putin’s oil revenues, pipeline crude deliveries from Russia to Europe were exempted from the embargo as several landlocked central European countries didn’t have other ways to source crude. Russian crude to Europe is being delivered via the Druzhba…