The announcement is here from earlier:


Ursula von der Leyen is President of the EU Commission:

oil russia eu 31 May 2022

The move from the EU, in a nutshell:

  • ban on Russian oil exempts oil that comes through pipelines
  • this allows dependent states, which is Hungary almost exclusively, to continue importing
  • shipped (sea-borne oil imports) Russian oil, accounting for 2/3 of EU imports, will be banned
  • Germany and Poland will stop oil imports via the Druzhba pipeline by the end of the year