The Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources posted the agreement at 13:10 Moscow time. An additional 25,000 tonnes of AI-92 and 5,000 tonnes of jet fuel, to be supplied within August, agreed with Russia's energy ministry and with the leadership of Rosneft and Gazprom Neft. No Russian official is named in the text.
Until then the source was Gongoryn Damdinnyam's own account on X. Interfax carried it at 10:20, Kommersant at 11:35 with a link to the post itself, Fontanka at 12:55. All three attribute the agreement to the minister. None quotes a Russian party to it.
The desk searched TASS, RIA, Prime, Vedomosti, RBC, Neftegaz.ru, Oilcapital, the Russian energy ministry, Rosneft and Gazprom Neft. Nothing on the meeting or the volumes has appeared from any of them.
Damdinnyam's own words, as Interfax rendered them, thank the Russian government and its enterprises for help in getting through what he called an unprecedentedly difficult period, with respect for the historically established friendly relations between the two countries.
The figure has a denominator that had not been reported. B. Dashpurev, state secretary at the same ministry, said on Tuesday that Mongolia's August order for 50,000 tonnes of AI-92 from Rosneft is confirmed. The Moscow trip adds half again to a contract that already existed, and the month's petrol book stands at 75,000 tonnes.
The Moscow trip adds half again to a contract that already existed, and the month's petrol book stands at 75,000 tonnes.
Two other channels are running. Dashpurev said 5,000 to 6,000 tonnes of AI-92 and Euro-5 product have been agreed with South Korea and that shipment has started, along with 3,000 tonnes of jet fuel of which 1,000 are loaded. That kerosene is separate from the 1,000 tonnes of Chinese jet fuel unloaded at Zamyn-Uud, and the two are not added together.
What happens on 15 August needs stating precisely, because two different rules share the date. The 50,000 tugrik cap on a single purchase and the odd and even plate days for buying fuel have both run in Ulaanbaatar since 4 August, and both end on 15 August. A separate odd and even rule begins that day: the city's road traffic control centre will admit cars to the six central districts by plate parity between 07:00 and 21:00, from 15 August to 12 September.
COP17 opens in Ulaanbaatar on 17 August and runs to 28 August, inside that traffic window.
Damdinnyam has said where he goes next. Moscow, then Kazakhstan, then Beijing, in that order, he told arslan.mn before leaving. Kazakhstan signed a memorandum in April to supply Mongolia 1 million tonnes of crude a year, and none of it has turned into deliveries.
The promise runs on a short clock. The petrol has to arrive by 31 August, and the purchase cap comes off on the 15th whether it does or not.