Russia is looking for workarounds through international sanctions and testing LNG supplies via the Northern Sea Route to China.
The former CEO of the Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine Serhii Makohon announced this on his Facebook page, the Ukrainian News agency reports.
Makohon noted that China has received the second cargo of liquefied gas from the sanctioned russian Arctic LNG-2 project.
The Voskhod tanker delivered about 150,000 m³ of LNG to a terminal in Guangxi Province.
This is the second batch after the August delivery of the Arctic Mulan vessel.
He wrote that despite international sanctions and a shortage of specialized tankers, russia is trying to increase exports through the "shadow fleet", and China is demonstrating its readiness to accept these supplies.
This indicates increasingly close energy cooperation between moscow and Beijing.
It is noted that for Ukraine this means strengthening the economic "airbag" for the russian federation in the war, because China is actually helping to circumvent Western restrictions.
Makohon believes that the deployment of such routes shows that the sanctions pressure has weaknesses that need to be strengthened.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, the aggressor country russia has expanded its shadow fleet of tankers for transporting oil, despite a number of Western sanctions previously imposed to prevent this.
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