The United States resumed oil imports from Russia in October 2023 after a break of one and a half years, according to data from the US statistical service.According to RIA Novosti, the first delivery after the break amounted to 36.8 thousand barrels...
It seems that crude oil is sold to another country that refines it and the US is buying the refined oil from them. It also seems it’s an unexpected loophole that lawmakers failed to account for somehow but are looking into fixing. So the original news story is extremely misleading at best but reads more like some Russian propaganda site looking to get an own or something.