Russia has agreed to provide Mongolia with additional shipments of gasoline and jet fuel to help relieve a fuel shortage that officials in the landlocked country have blamed on high seasonal demand, Mongolian officials said late Monday.
Mongolian Industry Minister Gongoryn Damdinnyam said Russia committed to delivering an extra 25,000 metric tons of AI-92 gasoline and 5,000 metric tons of jet fuel by the end of August.
“I express my gratitude to the Russian government and its businesses for their assistance in helping us overcome this unprecedented difficult period,” he wrote in a post on X following talks with Russian officials and executives from Rosneft and Gazprom.
Russia accounts for up to 97% of Mongolia’s gasoline and diesel imports.
In July, Russian fuel exports to Mongolia decreased to 173,000 metric tons from 186,400 in June as it grappled with its own shortages following a series of Ukrainian drone attacks on oil refineries.
