the oil giant Polish PKN Orlen announced this Saturday that Russia stopped supplying it with oil through the Druzhba pipeline, which accounted for about 10% of its crude needs.
“Deliveries through the Druzhba pipeline to Poland were interrupted by the Russian side,” the Polish group said in a statement transmitted to AFP.
Orlen said the move would not affect Polish customers and that all oil deliveries from now on would arrive by sea.
The announcement comes a day after the European Union approved a new round of sanctions on Russia over the war in Ukraine.
Poland indicated days before that it continued to buy 10% of its supply from Moscow, despite demanding greater sanctions on Russian crude.
Poland declared last year that it had a “radical plan” to end all Russian oil imports by the end of 2022.
But the country still had a contract in force with the Russian company Tatneft, Deputy Minister of State Assets Maciej Malecki warned in parliament.
This means that Poland was still buying 200,000 tons of crude from Russia every month.
According to Malecki, the state company “He strongly stated that he would stop buying Russian oil as soon as an EU embargo was introduced.”
In recent years, Poland has diversified its oil and gas supplies and, according to Malecki, the contract with Tatneft was the “only” energy contract with Russia.
Source: AFP
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