Stock Photo - 07 September 2023, Brandenburg, Schwedt/Oder: Crude oil processing facilities on the site of PCK-Raffinerie GmbH in the evening in the light of the setting sun. The refinery in the Uckermark region of northeastern Brandenburg supplies fuel to large parts of northeastern Germany. It is majority-owned by two subsidiaries of the Russian state-owned Rosneft group. Until the end of 2022, PCK processed mainly crude oil from Russia. In the wake of sanctions imposed because of Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine, the German government decided to stop using Russian oil. As an alternative, oil comes via Danzig and Rostock and from Kazakhstan. In September 2022, the German government imposed a trusteeship on Rosneft Deutschland and RN Refining & Marketing, the majority owners of PCK. It justified this on the grounds of an imminent threat to supply security as a result of the Russian attack on Ukraine. Photo: Patrick Pleul/dpa. - Schwedt/Oder/Brandenburg/Germany