“Most likely, the political nature of all these statements, because they do not pass through the economy,” Tokarev quotes RBC.
According to him, such ideas require economic study, and no one will make irrational decisions. He added that Lukashenko’s proposals are “very difficult to implement.”
Lukashenko said earlier that if Minsk and Moscow could not resolve the issue of gas and oil prices, Minsk would look for alternative ways of supply, and threatened to “pick up” two pipes of the Druzhba pipeline.
According to him, we are talking about a large-scale restart of two of the three threads of the Druzhba oil pipeline in reverse, as a result of which the transit of Russian oil through the republic to Europe could fall from 60 million to 20 million tons per year.
The Kremlin appreciated the words of Lukashenko.