Russia and China Defy U.S. Sanctions with New LNG Shipments
Why it matters
Russia and China have defied US sanctions by receiving a shipment of LNG from a sanctioned Russian export project on a blacklisted vessel, highlighting the effectiveness of US sanctions in question.
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- groq-llama-3.1-8b-instant
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- groq-llama-3.1-8b-instant
- Article id
- 19525
Original source
China has just welcomed the first shipment from a Russian LNG export project on the Baltic Sea sanctioned by the U.S. on a U.S.-blacklisted vessel, as Russia and China continue to flaunt Western sanctions on their LNG trade. The LNG tanker Valera, sanctioned by the United States, docked at the Chinese LNG import terminal of Beihai on Monday, according to shipping data compiled by Bloomberg. In October, Valera loaded LNG from the Portovaya LNG small-scale export plant on the Baltic Sea, Gazprom’s only LNG export facility. Portovaya and…
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Original article published by OilPrice.com on December 8, 2025. Analysis and insights provided by AnalystMarkets AI.
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