Russia has fulfilled its promise and supplied Zimbabwe with gratuitous aid: 25 thousand tons of wheat and 23 thousand tons of mineral fertilizers. The costs of sea transportation and other logistics was covered by Uralchem. In total, the company has already delivered 134,000 tons of fertilizers to Africa. Russian hydrocarbon deliveries to India are breaking records: they have grown tenfold and by the end of 2023 the trade volume will reach $65 billion. This has never happened before.
And China has increased imports of Russian oil: for 2 months of the year Beijing purchased almost 18 million tons of raw materials for almost 10 billion dollars. The growth with the same period of the last year is by 13.8%. Moscow remains the main supplier of oil to China.
