“In 2020, the losses of the Belarusian oil refineries from the increase in the cost of raw materials due to the tax maneuver will be twice as much as in 2019 (with comparable oil quotes),” said Anna Gurina, head of the planning and economic department of the concern, in an interview with Vestnik Belneftekhim.

Earlier, Prime Minister of Belarus Sergey Rumas said that Minsk had lost about $ 330 million in 2019 due to the tax maneuver of Moscow.

After the meeting of the Belarusian and Russian leaders Alexander Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin, the First Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus, Belarus, said that Belarusian refineries would buy oil from Russian companies at world market prices.