“During the entire period of the displacement of low-quality Russian oil from the Ukrainian section of the Druzhba oil pipeline, Transneft reserved the production capacities of Ukrtransnafta and paid the company € 4,336.2 thousand compensation for the provision of this service from May 2019 to January 2020,” The company said on Facebook.
Earlier it was reported that Belarus reached an agreement with the Russian side on approaches and methods of compensation for emergency situations at the Druzhba pipeline.
On April 23, 2019, 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".