As a result, the Ukrainian company UkrTransNafta “ceased from August 4 to provide services for the transportation of oil through Ukrainian territory,” Transneft reports.
Russian oil deliveries to three European countries through Ukraine were suspended after a bank transaction was rejected due to Moscow’s sanctions, the Russian oil company Transneft announced on Tuesday.
In a statement, Transneft explains that its payment for transit rights through Ukraine for the month of August, which was made on July 22, was rejected on July 28 because certain sanctions against Moscow came into force.
As a result, the Ukrainian company UkrTransNafta “ceased from August 4 to provide services for the transportation of oil through Ukrainian territory,” Transneft reports.
These are deliveries through a branch of the Druzhba pipeline that passes through Ukraine and serves three landlocked European countries, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
Deliveries to Poland and Germany, via another branch of the Druzhba that passes through Belarus, “continue smoothly,” Transneft said.
Despite Moscow’s military offensive in Ukraine since late February, Russian oil and natural gas continue to flow through Ukraine to the European Union, whose members are heavily dependent on Moscow’s hydrocarbons.
The EU adopted in June a gradual embargo on Russian oil, mainly providing for the end within six months of crude oil imports by ship.
Supplies through the Druzhba pipeline were instead allowed to continue “temporarily”, with no end date set, a concession won by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who cultivates relations with Vladimir Putin and whose country is 65% dependent from this cheap Russian oil.
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