Provides through the ‘Druzhba’ pipeline have been suspended, the power firm says
Ukraine has stopped the operation of a bit of the southern department of the ‘Druzhba’ (Friendship) oil pipeline that transits its territory, RIA Novosti reported on Wednesday, citing Russian oil-exporter Transneft.
In accordance with the report, oil transmission has been suspended for an indefinite interval.
“In Ukraine, the part [of Druzhba] has been stopped, from Brod to the Carpathians,” stated Igor Demin, an adviser to the president of Transneft.
He added that deliveries through the Belarusian part of the pipeline had been persevering with.
Final week, Kiev stopped oil flows to Hungary by the Druzhba pipeline, explaining the suspension was linked to a Russian air strike that reportedly had hit a transformer station close to the border with Belarus. It said that the service was suspended because of a “drop in voltage.”
Kiev later introduced plans to lift transit charges for Russian oil working by the pipeline to the EU, because of larger prices ensuing from Russian air and missile assaults focusing on the nation’s power infrastructure.
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Ukrainian oil transit charges have already been raised twice this yr. The final hike, in April, reportedly introduced the entire improve on an annualized foundation to 51%.
Constructed within the 1960s, Druzhba is likely one of the longest pipeline networks on this planet, which carries crude some four,000km from Russia to refineries within the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.
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