By Ben Aris in Berlin The Biden administration imposed theharshest ever oil sanctions ever on Russia on January 10 that immediately roiled the international energy markets. Russia’s major oil producers,

The Kremlin said on Monday that the latest round of U.S. sanctions on the Russian energy sector risked destabilising global markets, and Moscow would do everything possible to minimise their impact. "It is clear that the United States will continue to try to undermine the positions of our companies in non-competitive ways,

On Friday, the US Treasury Department— together with the UK — slapped new sanctions against Russia's key energy sector, including restrictions against oil giants Gazprom Neft