Russia has halted crude oil shipments via the Druzhba pipeline to Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic due to technical problems that arose last Thursday, December 19.
Reuters was informed about this by industry sources.
According to Reuters, the oil pumping halt was caused by a malfunction at the Unecha pumping station in the city of the same name in the Bryansk Oblast.
It is one of the largest pumping stations in central russia. Its temporary failure led to a disruption in oil supplies to Belarus and several European Union countries.
The agency's sources were divided on how long it would take the russians to repair and resume oil pumping. One of the interlocutors said that the problem could be resolved within a few days, while another believes that there will be no oil shipments until at least the end of the month.
The Belarusian news agency BELTA wrote, citing the Belneftekhim concern, that the pumping of russian oil through the Druzhba oil pipeline has indeed stopped.
A representative of the concern told BELTA added that both of the country's oil refineries are allegedly continuing their stable operation thanks to the created oil reserves.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, in September, Bloomberg agency wrote, citing sources, that the Hungarian company MOL had allegedly agreed on uninterrupted supplies of russian oil through the territory of Ukraine.
Recall that in August of this year, a leak was discovered on a section of the Druzhba oil pipeline that runs through the territory of Poland.
We also wrote that, according to The Washington Post, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy previously proposed seizing part of russian territory in order to undermine the Druzhba oil pipeline.
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