Ukraine resumed the supply of oil from the Russian Federation to the Czech Republic
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The supply of Russian oil to the Czech Republic via the southern section of the Druzhba pipeline via Ukraine has resumed
Moscow explained the suspension of supplies by the fact that at the end of July, Western sanctions against Russia prevented Ukraine from paying transit fees.
The supply of Russian oil to the Czech Republic via the southern section of the Druzhba pipeline transiting through Ukraine has resumed after a break that lasted more than a week. “Supply resumed at 8:00 p.m.,” the press secretary of Mero, the owner and operator of the Czech section of the Druzhba oil pipeline, told AFP on Friday evening.
Czech Industry and Trade Minister Józef Sikela said earlier that his country had found a way to pay oil transit fees.
The Russian pipeline operator, Transneft, announced on August 9 that the supply of oil through Ukraine had been suspended on August 4. Moscow explained this by the fact that at the end of July, Western sanctions against Russia prevented Ukraine from paying transit fees. of the borderless Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary were affected.
Then the Slovak oil company Slovnaft and its Hungarian parent company MOL offered to pay transit fees for the section of the pipeline through Ukraine. Both the Ukrainian and Russian sides agreed. Delivery to Slovakia was resumed on August 10, and to Hungary on August 11. The Czech Republic negotiated on its own behalf, and now it has also managed the problem of the disease.
In April, the EU countries agreed on the gradual introduction of an oil embargo against Russia as part of the sixth package of sanctions. Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, however, demanded a long-term exemption from the EU embargo on imports of Russian oil through the Druzhba pipeline, citing their heavy dependence on supplies from the Russian Federation.
It got worse earlier that Kazakhstan intends to sell part of its oil bypassing Russia through Azerbaijan’s largest oil pipeline from September this year. According to the International Energy Agency, the Russian Federation lost two billion in revenues from oil exports in a month.