MOSCOW : The United States over the past week has increased imports of Russian oil by 43%, reaching 100,000 barrels per day, Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council Mikhail Popov said on Sunday.
“The US forced Europeans to introduce anti-Russian sanctions, while not only continuing to import oil from Russia, but increasing volume of (oil) deliveries for the past week by 43% up to 100,000 barrels per day! Besides, Washington allowed its companies to import mineral fertilizer from Russia, listing it as essential goods,” Popov told Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper.
