“We really quickly took advantage of this situation (with the fall in world oil prices), restored all reserves, all capacities. The workload (refineries of the republic) is close to one hundred percent, ”RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that the country should be independent of the "oil games of the major powers."
Earlier, Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Rumas said that Minsk expects to receive 2 million tons of oil from Russia at a price of about $ 4 per barrel.