Russia to Keep Importing Gasoline at Least Through Year-End, Novak Says

The sequencing Novak describes is the telling part: import contracts must be in place before diesel flows abroad again, which frames imports as a deliberate buffer rather than a stopgap. That matters for refiners and traders positioned around Russian fuel flows, since the return of diesel exports is now explicitly conditional on import arrangements being settled first. Whether the year-end import timeline holds, and whether diesel shipments resume on the same trigger, is the open question.