“With regard to damages to buyers of oil with a high content of organochlorine compounds, this work is not yet completed. There are negotiations, various claims work, ”Novak quotes TASS.

According to the minister, "we are not talking about prohibitive amounts."

Earlier it was reported that the Russian company Transneft transferred compensation to 14 Kazakhstani companies due to an oil pollution incident at the Druzhba pipeline.

On April 23, Belarus announced a temporary suspension of fuel supplies to Ukraine, Poland and the Baltic countries due to deterioration in the quality of oil imported from Russia. At the end of June, the head of the Ministry of Energy of Russia Alexander Novak announced the end of the crisis with the supply of oil through the "Friendship".