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London, June 20 Russia has become China's biggest supplier of oil as the country sold discounted crude to Beijing amid sanctions over the Ukraine war, media reports said.Imports of Russian oil rose by 55 per cent from a year earlier to a record level in May, displacing Saudi Arabia as China's biggest provider, BBC reported.China has ramped up purchases of Russian oil despite demand dampened by Covid curbs and a slowing economy.Chinese companies, including state refining giant Sinopec and state-run Zhenhua Oil, have increased their purchases of Russian crude in recent months after being offered heavy discounts as buyers in Europe and the US shunned Russian energy in line with sanctions over its war on Ukraine, BBC reported.The imports into China, which include supplies pumped through the East Siberia Pacific Ocean pipeline and shipments by sea, totalled nearly 8.42m tonnes last month, according to data from the Chinese General Administration of Customs.That pushed Saudi Arabia - formerly China's biggest source of crude oil - into second place with 7.82m tonnes.In March, the US and UK said they would ban Russian oil, while the European Union has been working towards ending its reliance on Russian gas, as the West steps up the economic response to the invasion of Ukraine.At the time, US President Joe Biden said the move targeted "the main artery of Russia's economy".Energy exports are a vital source of revenue for Russia but the move is also likely to impact Western consumers.Last week, a report said Russia earned almost $100 billion in revenue from fossil fuel exports in the first 100 days of the country's invasion of Ukraine, despite a fall in exports in May, BBC reported.The European Union made up 61 per cent of these imports, worth approximately $59 billion.Overall, exports of Russian oil and gas are falling and Moscow's revenue from energy sales has also declined from a peak of well over $1 billion a day in March.Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

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