Senator Blumenthal demands to turn around a tanker with Russian diesel going to the USA Democratic US Senator Richard Blumenthal called on the company that owns the tanker Agioi Fanendes, which is carrying the first batch of Russian diesel to US ports, to change the ship's route. The senator wrote about this in an address he published on the social network H. The Maltese-flagged tanker Agioi Fanendes was loaded with 40,000 tons of diesel in the Russian Baltic port of Primorsk. It is scheduled to arrive in the ports of New York and New Jersey on November 7. Blumenthal, who was one of the authors of the legislative initiative on "hell" sanctions against Russia, demands that the ship's owner change the ship's course and avoid any future operation with Russian diesel. Although the US Treasury issued a temporary license to export Russian diesel fuel, according to the senator, such a license cannot prevail over a clear and unambiguous law. "Contradictory instructions from the administration regarding Russian energy sources given in recent weeks should not be used as an excuse to ignore legislative prohibitions. The president could issue a permit to facilitate this action, but only Congress can give it legal effect," he stressed. And we are on Facebook, Instagram, X, Tik-Tok, YouTube.

Senator Blumenthal demands to turn around a tanker with Russian diesel going to the USA Democratic US Senator Richard Blumenthal called on the company that owns the tanker Agioi Fanendes, which is carrying the first batch of Russian diesel to US ports, to change the ship's route. The senator wrote about this in an address he published on the social network H. The Maltese-flagged tanker Agioi Fanendes was loaded with 40,000 tons of diesel in the Russian Baltic port of Primorsk. It is scheduled to arrive in the ports of New York and New Jersey on November 7. Blumenthal, who was one of the authors of the legislative initiative on "hell" sanctions against Russia, demands that the ship's owner change the ship's course and avoid any future operation with Russian diesel. Although the US Treasury issued a temporary license to export Russian diesel fuel, according to the senator, such a license cannot prevail over a clear and unambiguous law. "Contradictory instructions from the administration regarding Russian energy sources given in recent weeks should not be used as an excuse to ignore legislative prohibitions. The president could issue a permit to facilitate this action, but only Congress can give it legal effect," he stressed. And we are on Facebook, Instagram, X, Tik-Tok, YouTube.