 Pentagon purchases Russian oil despite sanctions. Russian oil was reaching a Greek refinery through Turkey. From there the oil was being sold to the Pentagon despite international sanctions according to the Washington Post. Petroleum products that originated in Russia kept flowing to the motor oil Hellas refinery on the Argen Sea in Greece, the material states. It is noted that the supply route passed through a storage facility in Turkey allowing the ownership of the oil to be concealed as being from Russia. In essence the ownership rights to the products changed hands several times before reaching Greece. The article writes that the exact quantity of Russian origin fuel in the Pentagon's procurement could not be determined. These products are processed using numerous ingredients that are impossible to trace during production. It was also impossible to determine whether at any point in the route the Russian origin fuel was rebranded as originating from another country. Documents describing the origin of the oil batch, known as certificates of origin, are not publicly accessible. Regarding the Pentagon's stance they have signed new contracts worth nearly one billion dollars with the Greek refinery since the US ban came into effect in March of last year. According to shipping reports since February over one million barrels of aviation gasoline from motor oil Hellas were also sent to government and corporate buyers in Italy, France, Spain and the United Kingdom. Pentagon Defense Logistics Agency representative Joe Yosua stated that he was unaware of fuel from Russia heading to their Greek supplier.