Lukashenko declared a full-fledged oil war on Russia
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko is threatening to start withdrawing oil from the transit pipeline in order to reach the volumes agreed with Russia of 2 million tons per month.
BELTA reported this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“In Sochi, we agreed that the Russian government and personally Deputy Head of Administration Dmitry Kozak would monitor this issue and help us come to an agreement. That is, a signal went out: if Belarus is negotiating with someone, help them deliver this oil from Russia through a pipeline. I didn’t blackmail anyone, I said: if oil is not supplied from Russia in the required volumes... we will start taking it out of the transit pipeline,” the agency quotes Lukashenko as saying.
He also says that 70 million tons of oil per year are pumped through the country to the West and for Belarus, and “they don’t have any problems” when pumping to the Russian Federation.
“We pump this oil in good faith, honestly. Remember dirty oil in the summer? We still haven’t paid for this, although our equipment in Mozyr failed, Novopolotsk was damaged, and the Druzhba oil pipeline was damaged. Therefore, if they don’t deliver in February, we will get up to two million tons
“This is the most serious increase in stakes in this conflict so far. And if Minsk agrees to it, we will return to the mid-XNUMXs and a full-fledged oil war,” writes opposition Belarusian journalist Artem Shraibman in his blog.
In addition, as PolitNavigator reported, today Lukashenko threatened Russia with sanctions and demanded loan deferment.
We also wrote that Belarus began sampling process oil from the Druzhba main oil pipeline.
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