Kyiv asks largest independent oil trader to state when it will ship last barrel and how much it will ship until that date
Volodymyr Zelenskiy
Zelenskiy asked Vitol to close its business dealings with Russia in March “to cut off the cashflow” that he said had financed “the mass murder of innocent people”. Refinitiv shipping data compiled by Global Witness showed Vitol, which employs the former foreign minister Sir Alan Duncan and has offices in London near Buckingham Palace, chartered shipments of more than 11m barrels of oil through ports in Russia in June.The data showed the energy trading firm has chartered shipments of more than 38m barrels of oil from Russian ports – worth an estimated $3.21bn and averaging more than 9m barrels a month – since the invasion began on 24 February.
In early June a shipment of more than 1m barrels of oil from Novorossiysk was chartered to Jamnagar, the Indian oil refinery. India hasSam Leon, the head of data investigations at Global Witness, said: “Since the invasion, Vitol has been one of the main western enablers of Putin’s deadly trade in fossil fuels. Nothing but the toughest embargo on Russian oil will stop them from profiting at the Ukrainian people’s expense.
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