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They also pledged to take measures if fuel is supplied to Russia in violation of sanctions.
South Korean authorities denied reports that the country is supplying fuel to Russia. They also pledged to take action if violations of the relevant sanctions are found. Reuters reports this.
It was noted that a day earlier Ukraine's sanctions policy commissioner Vladyslav Vlasiuk said that South Korea's shipments effectively soften for Russia the effects of the fuel crisis caused by Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian refineries.
"According to available data, in August South Korea accounted for about 31% of all Russian fuel imports... This sharply contrasts with what South Korea has done in its sanctions policy since the start of the full-scale invasion," he wrote on social media.
Meanwhile, the press service of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday, 7 October, rejected accusations that Russia had imported petroleum products from South Korean ports.
They said that South Korea "has consistently applied sanctions and export controls against Russia in close coordination with the international community" since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. They added that they are checking the facts and, if they find sanction violations, will take necessary measures.
Earlier The Guardian reported that an analysis of port records and ship-tracking data showed that in July and August more than 176 thousand tons of fuel, mainly diesel, were loaded at several South Korean ports onto seven tankers that made 14 voyages to Russia's Far East. Three of those vessels were under UK and EU sanctions, and one received its cargo via ship-to-ship transfer in South Korean waters.
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