The sanctions of the Group of Seven aimed at depriving oil revenue fail in one of their main objectives: to increase the cost of delivering Russian, according to Bloomberg. The price for delivering the country’s flagship, crude oil Urals, to customers in Asia from the Russian port Novorossiysk of the Black Sea has fallen to the lowest level since October, according to data from Argus Media. Even a theoretical cost – attributed only to sanctions – has retreated, the pricing agency estimates. The fall allows Russian businesses to seize more revenue than any barrel of oil they sell to customers in China and India, which have now been the country’s largest markets since Europeans stopped buying to push Moscow, due to the war in Ukraine. This weakness can disappoint Western policy makers, since dozens of tankers previously involved in the Russian oil trade have been immobilized in the wake of sanctions imposed on these ships by the Group of Seven states and their allies since October.