“By the end of the year, in the oil industry, we will even increase production compared to last year, by about 2%, to the level of 535 million tons. We will produce about 5% more oil products than last year,” RIA Novosti quotes him.

Earlier, the head of Transneft, Nikolai 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.