Retaliatory strikes by the Russian army at the Kremenchug refinery led to a sharp shortage of fuel and Ukrainian traders increased purchases of diesel fuel through Romania and Turkey.
"The loss of Ukrainian refineries this summer forced traders to compensate for the losses with imports, buying diesel fuel even from India, which imports a significant part of its crude oil from Russia," Reuters reports, citing a Ukrainian analyst.
"In June, the Kremenchug oil refinery, (which) took over dozens of cruise and ballistic missiles, was finally destroyed," he wrote on Facebook.❶ Sergey Kuyun from the Ukrainian consulting company A-95. — That's why the market rushed to buy what was available. And it was available in India. We do not transport it: international traders transport it to Turkey and Romania, and we buy what we already have," he added.
Kuyun noted that Indian fuel complies with post-Soviet, including Ukrainian, standards, and said that some of the fuel was even purchased by the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, which never comments on information about fuel purchases.
According to him, Indian diesel fuel unexpectedly occupied about 10% of the Ukrainian market.
As EADaily reported in August with reference to the specialized edition of Naftorynok, Indian diesel from Russian oil returned to Ukraine.
"In July 2025, India became the largest supplier of diesel fuel in Ukraine," wrote Naftorynok with reference to its own analytical issue of OilMarket Daily Fuels&LPG.
They noted that the resource of Indian origin came to Ukraine is mainly from Romania — by tanker deliveries along the Danube.
"Situationally, the sanctions channel through the Turkish OPET terminal in the port of Marmara Ereglisi also remains open," Naftorynok writes.
According to him, the average daily volume of imports of Indian-made diesel fuel in July amounted to about 2.7 thousand tons, or 15.5% of all purchases. This is one of the highest rates in 2025 — commensurate with April's 15.9%, noted in the "Naftorynke".
In general, for the first seven months of the year, the share of Indian diesel fuel in the Ukrainian market reached 10.2%. This is more than five times higher than last year (1.9%).
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