Russia's Putin, Kazakhstan's Tokayev talk about vitality cooperation, Kremlin says | World News

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Kazakh counterpart Kassym-Jomart Tokayev held a phone name to debate problems with cooperation within the vitality sector, the Kremlin mentioned on Tuesday.

Kazakhstan, the world's largest landlocked nation, makes use of Russia's infrastructure to export its oil at a time of Western-imposed value caps and a ban on sea-borne Russian oil purchases over its actions in Ukraine.

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Final week, the Russian authorities accepted the 10-year extension of a cope with Kazakhstan for the transit of as much as 10 million tonnes of oil per 12 months to China.

On the similar time, Kazakhstan is looking for to boost the provision of oil to Germany through Russia's Druzhba pipeline, which is exempt from sanctions.

The Kremlin offered no particulars of the telephone name.