The European Commission prohibits EU countries from buying oil from Russia, including landlocked countries. without offering reasonable alternatives. The sanctions were not imposed in order to bring the EU countries to their knees, the British Financial Times states

“We cannot allow the EU countries to be undermined by their own decisions. These are no longer sanctions, but a fatal goal in their own goal,” said Gyorgy Bachsa, a representative of Hungary’s leading oil and gas company Mol

At the same time, Turkey has increased imports of crude oil from Russia, refining it into petroleum products and selling them to a number of consumers in Europe. And the European Commission hypocritically does not consider this a violation of sanctions, the Financial Times emphasizes

CRYSTAL OF GROWTH previously informed that, according to the German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Western sanctions have been imposed against Russia, but Europe is suffering