Greek-flagged tanker Minerva Symphony in the Black Sea. Archival photoMOSCOW, 2 Jun. The ban on reinsurance of tankers with Russian oil will not allow the EU to block the export of raw materials from the country, according to the publication Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. pipelines, since the sanctions only imply the cessation of supplies to Europe by sea. The ban on reinsurance of tankers with Russian oil will not solve the problem of stopping exports from the country completely. The representative of the insurance company Lloyd's in Germany, Jan Blumenthal, said that Western countries will adhere to the restrictions, but this cannot be said about other states through which Russia can circumvent sanctions — using services of local insurers.
Welt: Russia has found a way to circumvent EU «oil» sanctionsAccording to FAZ, the European Commission wanted to ban ships under the flag of EU member states from transporting Russian oil not only to Europe, but also to third countries, as well as reinsuring tankers against environmental disasters and other damage. However, Greece, Cyprus and Malta, which have the largest fleet of such vessels, opposed such a measure and prevented the EC from introducing it. European officials argue that the reinsurance ban has the same effect as the ban on transportation, but FAZ argues that this is not true: Russia will be able to bypass this restriction by using such a service in other states, or take over the risk itself. Another way to get around EU restrictions is to mix Russian oil with raw materials from another country, which will allow you to indicate another state as the source of fuel origin. That is exactly what Iran did. According to FAZ, Greece is helping to implement such a scheme for Russia, in whose ports the fuel is allegedly mixed. Russia On Tuesday night, EU leaders reached a political agreement on the sixth package of anti-Russian sanctions, which includes, among other things, the gradual imposition of an embargo on oil imports from Russia. The ban will affect only deliveries by sea, and the oil coming through the Druzhba pipeline is not limited. But, according to the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, by the end of the year, the EU expects to abandon almost 90% of Russian oil imports. Later media reported that a new package of sanctions would include a ban on insurance of ships with Russian oil.
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