On Saturday, commenting after the US Treasury Department issued a general licence permitting the sale of Russian oil, Dmitriev said Russia continued to cooperate with the United States on economic and energy matters. He also said the move would trigger “extreme anxiety, hysteria and howling” among warmongers in the EU and UK.
“The extension of the lifting of sanctions on Russian oil in transit for another 30 days, which all warmongers vehemently opposed, will, as last time, affect more than 100 million barrels of oil in transit,” Dmitriev wrote on Telegram.
The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has issued a general licence for the delivery and sale of Russian oil, extending the easing of US sanctions to crude loaded onto ships as of 17 April. The authorisation is valid until 16 May.