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The transportation of Russian oil through the territory of Ukraine resumed after the largest oil and gas company of Hungary, MOL, had paid for the transit.
This is reported by Reuters, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
The transit of Russian oil to Central Europe resumed on Wednesday, August 10, after a six-day break, after the Hungarian group MOL paid for the transit.
MOL said oil is flowing again through the southern branch of the Druzhba pipeline, has reached Slovakia and is due to reach Hungary on Thursday.
However, it is not expected to restore its supplies via the oil pipeline to the Czech Republic.
As Ukrainian News Agency reported, on August 10, MOL and the Slovak oil refining company Slovnaft announced that they had paid for the transit of Russian oil through the territory of Ukraine, and transit is expected to resume in the coming days.
The company Transneft (Russia) announced the suspension of oil transit through the territory of Ukraine on August 4.
