President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, is letting a Russian Gazprom subsidiary continue operating in Serbia without sanctions.
The immediate past President of the US, Joe Biden, put the company under sanctions in January as he was leaving office.
Biden gave Gazprom 45 days to exit ownership of NIS.
However, the company has been operating for at least the next two months, according to Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic.
NIS, majority-owned by Russia’s Gazprom, runs the only oil refinery in Serbia.
Since after Biden left office, the company, according to the Guardian UK, has received several waivers of sanctions related to the Russian war in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s military onSaturdaydenied Russian claims that Ukrainian troops had been forced out of their last footholds in Russia’s Kursk region.
The Ukrainian military’s general staff said its forces were continuing their operations in some districts of Kursk region, and its incursion into another part of Russia, Belgorod region, was still under way.
