Australia says it won’t buy Russian fuel despite Trump’s diesel agreement

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Australia said it will continue to bar Russian fuel imports despite a US diesel agreement that could involve Russian supplies. Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen said Canberra does not need or want Russian fuel and will not allow purchases to benefit Vladimir Putin amid the war in Ukraine.

Australia has no need to buy fuel from Russia and said that purchases from there would remain barred so that the country did not benefit from the invasion of Ukraine. “We don’t need or want Russian fuel in Australia,” Chris Bowen, Australia’s minister for climate change and energy, said on Saturday at a press conference in western Sydney. “We do not want Vladimir Putin to benefit from this war in the Middle East. What the United States does is a matter for them, but we won’t be changing our...