“They made a decision to reduce and nevertheless agreed to impose an embargo, at least in this form, and therefore, naturally, this should be advertised in every possible way.
We need to talk about what a breakthrough they have achieved.
And the fact that most of the oil that was sold to the European market will go to Asian markets and we will simply exchange sales markets with other producers, they do not talk about this ... As a result, the Europeans themselves adopt such sanctions that will allow Russia to leave as comfortably as possible to other markets,” Yushkov said.
According to the expert, according to the documents, the Europeans can reduce 92% of imports, but in reality, part of Russian oil in one form or another will still go to Europe.
“Firstly, part of Russian oil and oil products will be mixed with other grades and formally they will no longer be Russian… - then it is reloaded from tanker to tanker and, as if confusing the tracks, it still ends up in Europe.
Third, those countries that have been allowed to keep buying Russian oil can re-export.
For example, Hungarian companies have received ownership of Russian oil and, in principle, they can resell it to their neighbors.
This will not be considered Russian oil, since the oil will already belong to the Hungarian company, ”the RT interlocutor added.
Earlier, Emmanuel Macron said that a new package of EU sanctions against Russia would reduce Russian oil imports by 92% by the end of 2022.