EU’s new Russia sanctions to affect Druzhba pipeline

June 21, BPN. EU ambassadors have agreed on the 11th package of sanctions against Russia, the Swedish Presidency of the EU Council tweeted.

The package will affect Russian oil flows through the Druzhba pipeline’s southern line among other things, said Andrzej Sadoś, the Polish envoy to the EU, as quoted by Polskie Radio.

The pipeline starts in Russia’s Samara region, runs through Bryansk and then branches out to deliver oil to Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, Germany and Hungary.

The Russian business daily Kommersant reported in May that Belarus proposed an 84-percent increase in transit tariffs for Russian oil due to lower volumes amid European sanctions.

It said that the Belarusian oil transport company’s losses amounted to 329 million Russian rubles (some $3.9 million) in the first quarter and could rise to 1.26 billion rubles in the first half of the year.