“We have no negotiations with the Kazakhs or information that the Kazakhs are going to enter into any supply contracts.

(Head of Transneft Nikolai. -

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) Tokarev said that this is technically possible, ”TASS quotes him.

At the same time, Demin noted that the final verdict on transit is authorized to be taken only by the Russian Ministry of Energy.

In addition, according to a company representative, Kazakhstan cannot replace the volumes that used to go from Russia to Germany.

Earlier, Tokarev said that the company had already received an application for pumping oil through the Druzhba pipeline from Poland and Germany for 2023, despite the statements of these countries about the refusal of supplies.