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...
Headline is misleading, which is assumed since the source article is literally fucking Pravda. There are no direct imports of Oil or Refined Petroleum from Russia to the United States. Those were and still are 100% banned.
What’s happening is that Russian Crude is being bought by other countries like India, mixed with non-Russian crude, and then THAT is being refined into Gasoline and Diesel fuel. Those fuels are then being sold by that country and brought to the United States.
You can read about it here - NPR.
There’s already a Bi-Partisan bill in front of Congress to stop it too.