Druzhba Pipeline Itself Not Damaged: Hungary's Szijjarto

The Druzhba oil pipeline can likely be restarted within a short time as the pipeline itself had not been damaged according to Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto on Facebook.

• Oil supply to parts of Eastern and Central Europe are temporarily suspended because of the damage to the transformer. MOL said a rocket had hit a power station close to the Belarus border which provides electricity for a pump station for the pipeline.
• "Its somewhat reassuring news that according to current information, the Druzhba pipeline itself was not damaged, only one element of the infrastructure that operates the pipeline, a power station," Szijjarto said.
• "Repairing that is obviously easier than if the pipeline itself had been hit ... so this can likely be done within a short time, depending on the faults uncovered during the technical work." he added.
• Russia’s Transneft has said that Ukraine will not restart Druzhba pipeline flows today. "According to Ukrtransnafta, the Ukrainian side is not planning to resume transportation today. We have no other information," Transneft’s spokesman Igor Demin told TASS.