Russia Turns to South Korea for Fuel as Refinery Crisis Deepens

Russia last month imported some 30,000 metric tons of fuels from South Korea to tackle supply constraints caused by continued Ukrainian drone attacks on refineries. According to a Reuters report citing ship-tracking data from Kpler and Vortexa, at least two short-range tankers were loaded with fuels in South Korea and sent to Russia’s Far East. One has already arrived at its destination, the data also showed. An earlier report by Bloomberg suggested Russian refineries’ throughput fell last month to the lowest since 2002, at 3.6 million…