The government’s readout, timed 21:25 Moscow on 10 October, says the decision “will at this stage allow 500,000 tonnes of diesel fuel to be sent to the world market”. Oil companies will immediately start contracting diesel supplies with foreign counterparties, in coordination with the government, the readout says. “This decision will not affect the interests of Russian consumers,” deputy prime minister Alexander Novak is quoted as saying.
The readout recaps the ban’s history: a ban on diesel exports by non-producers, meaning traders without refineries of their own, from 31 January this year, extended to producers on 9 July. Resolution 1252 holds the producers’ ban to 31 October and the non-producers’ ban to 31 January 2027.
Oil companies will immediately start contracting diesel supplies with foreign counterparties, in coordination with the government, the readout says.
Washington’s half is General License 135 of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, dated 9 October. It authorises transactions otherwise barred under the Russia sanctions regulations, 31 CFR parts 587 and 589, “related to the sale, delivery, offloading, or importation, including importation into the United States, of diesel fuel of Russian Federation origin”, through 12:01 a.m. eastern time on 7 April 2027. It permits no debit to accounts at US banks held by the Central Bank of Russia, the National Wealth Fund or the finance ministry.
Trump wrote on Friday that Russia would immediately supply more than 300,000 tonnes of diesel, 500,000 more in November and 1 million after that, with up to 3 million more depending on the state of its refineries, according to Interfax and Asia-Plus, which quoted his post. The Kremlin’s readout of the call, timed 23:27 Moscow, says Russia “confirmed its readiness to supply oil and oil products to the American and world markets” and that the two presidents agreed to keep up personal contacts. No meeting date was set.
Five senators, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Thom Tillis, Jeanne Shaheen and Richard Blumenthal, said in a statement carried by AP that the decision to permit imports of Russian diesel into the United States directly contradicts the law, Interfax reported on Monday. Moscow’s 500,000 tonnes at this stage and Trump’s 300,000 now with 500,000 more in November are figures from two capitals, and neither page reconciles them.
For the buyers east of the Caspian the two documents say nothing, while the dependence is on the record. Russia supplied 73.2% of Tajikistan’s oil-product import bill by value in January to September 2026, Asia-Plus’s compilation of the trade statistics shows. Mongolia takes its diesel by rail from Russia and set its fuel duty at three Chinese crossings to zero from 21 October to the end of 2028.
Kyrgyzstan’s president told the consultative meeting in Turkmenbashi on Thursday that his country would buy fuel from Central Asian states and Azerbaijan at market prices, a diversification he put down to “the current unstable situation on international markets”, and would consider joint refineries, Open.kg reported. Emomali Rahmon again proposed a large regional refinery at the same table.
Kazakhstan’s Kurultai, its parliament, adopted on 7 October the protocol renewing its agreement with Russia on duty-free supplies of oil and oil products, an agreement in force from 2012 to 2024, Vlast.kz reported from the sitting. The protocol was signed in November 2024 and ratified by Russia in 2025.
Energy minister Yerlan Akkenzhenov put the saving at 5.59 billion tenge a year on petrol, 15.75 billion on diesel and 8.61 billion on jet fuel, 29.95 billion together by CAW’s arithmetic, with about 300,000 tonnes of the jet fuel coming from Russia. “Not one tenge, not one rouble” of customs duties was paid under it, he said. The protocol keeps the annual indicative balances, the agreed yearly volumes of duty-free supply, and applies retroactively.
The balances are the mechanism the protocol keeps for Russian fuel into Kazakhstan, by Vlast’s account of the sitting, and the readout of 10 October does not mention them. Whether the 500,000 tonnes stand beside the balances or count against them, the readout does not say, and whether the ban ever touched supplies under the intergovernmental agreements is a question for the resolution’s text, which the readout does not print.
The producers’ ban under resolution 1252 runs to 31 October, three weeks after Saturday’s release. Before that date the quota changes the calendar. After it, what changes depends on whether the government extends the ban, and the readout does not address that.