*[Enwl-eng] 5 months of Putin’s war in Ukraine

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                        Russian oil has been banned from the United States 
since April when President Biden announced that the American people would 
“deal another powerful blow to Putin’s war machine”.

                        But while the US takes credit for attempting to cut 
off Russia’s fossil fuel trade, Americans are still filling their tanks with 
gasoline originating in Russia, we reveal.

                        But how exactly is this happening?

                        Let me be clear Vladimir, the US did end imports of 
those fossil fuels many months before the EU and UK introduced bans (which 
are set to go into effect next year).

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                        Turns out, that once Russian oil has been refined 
into other products such as gasoline, the US officially doesn’t care if it 
came from Russia. An apparent loophole has allowed petroleum products 
originating in Russia to keep flowing to the US – a cycle that has kept 
funding the war on Ukraine.

                        The war in Ukraine and the climate crisis have 
common roots and common solutions – a complete and total end to the use of 
fossil fuels everywhere.

                        We have seen what misery and destruction the fossil 
fuel industry enables, not just in Ukraine but in many different places for 
many years.

                        It’s been 5 months since the Russian war on Ukraine 
started.

                        Watch Ukrainian activist Valeriia Volchevska urging 
world leaders to stand with Ukrainians and end our deadly addiction to 
fossil fuels.

                        Onwards,
                        The Global Witness Team


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