WASHINGTON, April 29 The United States has extended the permit for transactions with Russian banks for settlements in the energy sector, as follows from the general license of the American Ministry of Finance.
“All energy-related transactions prohibited by Executive Order 14024 involving one or more designated entities are permitted until November 1, 2024,” the text reads.
This list includes banks Otkritie, Sovcombank, Sberbank, VTB, Alfa-Bank, Rosbank, Zenit, Bank St. Petersburg, as well as the Central Bank.
From the beginning special operations in Ukraine The United States has imposed many sanctions against Russian legal entities, in particular financial organizations. At the same time, the US Ministry of Finance initially allowed transactions related to energy with some structures that were subject to restrictions.
In one of the previous editions of the general license< /span>clarified that the term «energy-related» means the extraction, production, refining, liquefaction, gasification, regasification, conversion, enrichment, manufacture, transportation or purchase of petroleum, including crude oil.
Among other things, the permit concerns LNG, petroleum products and natural gas, coal, timber and uranium.
Washington has repeatedly explained that the purpose of the restrictions introduced is to deprive Moscow of revenues from the sale raw materials, but at the same time avoiding damage to the rest of the world. However, this could not be done.
Despite the fact that the main importer of fuel, Europe, has reduced purchases of oil and gas from Russia, the latter managed to increase supplies to friendly countries. As Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak reported, last year Moscow increased the share of oil exports to these states to 86 percent, and oil products to 84.
