Russia halts oil to Belarus, but transit to Europe still flowing

MINSK/MOSCOW - Russia has halted oil supplies to refineries in Belarus, the Belarusian state energy firm said on Friday, amid a new contract dispute that is also threatening large Russian oil deliveries to Western Europe crossing the country.

Moscow and Minsk have had several oil and gas spats over the past decade, in what has been described as a love-hate relationship between presidents Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko. “Deliveries have been suspended... Plants are reducing their workload to the technical minimum,” a spokesman for Belneftekhim said.) said Russian oil companies have not sent any oil to Belarus since Jan. 1, the TASS news agency reported.

Belneftekhim said on Friday it had temporarily suspended the export of petroleum products as of Jan. 1. In the first 11 months of 2019, imports from Belarus made up 35% of Ukraine’s diesel fuel market and 36% of its petrol market, according to Ukrainian consulting group A-95.Belneftekhim said it would fulfil its petroleum product export requirements despite the suspension.

Once again Russia is using energy extortion as a political tactic.

Putin's Aggression against Eastern Eur. continues,now that Trump's following Putin's orders directly, diverting attention to Iran-a Russian Ally, that Putin will use to create added diversions of U.S. resources,throughout the world- N.Kor., Mid. East, Eastern Eur., for his Agenda

Starve Belarus until it it forced to rejoin Russia !! Another hot spot for 45 to stick his nose in , but Putin is his personal ally and 45 will happily starve Belarus for Putin ; monsters

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