legion-media Russia
The Druzhba pipeline is unlikely to be destroyed; instead, Ukraine could try to make pumping oil through it economically unprofitable. Igor Yushkov, a leading analyst at the National Energy Security Fund, an expert at the Financial University of the Government of the Russian Federation, shared his opinion.
Ukraine may increase tariffs for pumping the resource under pressure from the United States or for some other reason. Then Hungary and Serbia will refuse to use the pipeline.
It will be difficult for Kiev to implement such a scenario. Since at present it is not Transneft, but Hungary that pays for supplies via Druzhba.
“Therefore, Ukrainians will have to explain this price increase not to Russia, but to Europeans. It will be much more difficult to do, because it is one thing to tell Russia that “you generally have to pay and repent, and not ask why”, and it is another to try to make the same thing with the Europeans”, Free Press quotes the interlocutor.
Earlier it was reported that Poland offered to introduce a new sanctions package. We are talking about limiting the import of Russian oil through the northern part of the Druzhba pipeline.
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