The EU’s Ban on Russian Diesel Won’t Really Stop Fuel Flows
New measure means the bloc will lose its biggest supplier of the fuel
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For decades, a steady stream of ocean tankers has filed back and forth between a small cluster of ports in northwest Europe and the Baltic Sea. Typically, each would bring about 40 million liters of diesel to help keep Europe’s economy humming. Tomorrow, that will be banned — along with almost any other deliveries of Russian fuels to the European Union.