AP Exclusive: Russia, Vietnam using energy profits to avoid possible US sanctions for arms deals

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Oil Pares Weekly Gain as Trump Calls for Low Prices to End War

Published On : 2025-09-19

Oil pared a second weekly gain as renewed calls by US President Donald Trump for lower prices to pressure Moscow to end the war in Ukraine weighed against renewed attacks on Russian energy infrastructure.

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AP Exclusive: Russia, Vietnam using energy profits to avoid possible US sanctions for arms deals

Published On : 2025-09-19

BANGKOK (AP) — Russia and Vietnam have developed a back-door method of concealing arms deal payments to avoid American and other Western sanctions, using the profits from joint oil and gas ventures to pay off defense contracts without any open transfers of cash through the global banking system, according to internal Vietnamese documents obtained by […]

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