'Europe bought Russian oil via India at record rates in 2023 despite Ukraine war' - Times of India
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Europe News: NEW DELHI: In 2023, Europe saw a significant increase in its imports of refined oil from India, coinciding with a notable rise in India's imports of R.
  • Ugly Bob@sh.itjust.works
    22·
    6 months ago

    No, no, see… They bought Indian oil from India. You know India, known for their oil reserves. Totally not Russian I tell you.

    • 4vr
      131·
      6 months ago

      India sells oil from India to EU and sells oil from Russia within India. Everyone happy except Ukraine.

  • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz
    13·
    6 months ago

    “Record rates” to what we used to buy from India, which is almost nothing. EU oil imports from India increased from 111k barrels a day to 236k barrels a day, while we used to import something like 4.5 million barrels of oil per day straight from Russia.

    But writing “EU now imports 3% of the oil it used to from Russia through India” would hardly be news worth writing about.

  • Ooops@kbin.social
    1·
    6 months ago

    Europe imported “record rates” in regards to the amount formerly imported from India (more than doubled basically non-existent imports).

    Or: Actually laughable small fraction of what they formerly imported from Russia.,

    But that is of course not the desired narrative, is it?