After Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. and European allies banned the import of Russian oil and natural gas.
But a new report reveals that hundreds of millions of dollars worth of fuel, in part made from Russian crude, still ending up in American gas tanks.
In one of the country's biggest ports, in one of its largest cities, a ship full of ill-gotten gains. Last month, the Balzani arrived in the New Harbor carrying more than 500,000 barrels of fuel made in part from Russian crude oil. It turns out that U.S. imports are helping fuel Russia's war machine.
For the first nine months of 2023, that crude oil was worth to the Kremlin at least $180 million.
