Igor Demin, adviser to the president of Transneft, told RIA Novosti about this.
“The Ukrainian side has confirmed that it has received payment for oil transit and is ready to start working,” he said.
Earlier, Dyomin said that Ukrtransnafta had stopped pumping oil through the southern branch of the Druzhba oil pipeline system to Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Later, the Hungarian oil and gas company MOL confirmed that oil supplies through the Druzhba pipeline had been stopped.
Leading expert of the National Energy Security Fund Igor Yushkov, in an interview with PolitExpert, commented on the situation in the EU energy industry.