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Germany denied a claim that it plans to buy Russian pipeline oil in 2023 and said it will instead look to Kazakhstan. A Russian pipeline operator said it had received requests from Germany for supplies in 2023.  "Reports that Germany had ordered Russian crude oil are false," a German official said.

A Russian oil pipeline operator said that it received requests from Germany for first-quarter crude deliveries, but Berlin denied that...

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