Belarus is reducing the flow of oil via the Druzhba pipeline from Russia to Poland for three days due to “unplanned maintenance” while the migrant crisis on the Belarus-Poland border escalates. Belarusian operator Gomeltransneft Druzhba has limited the pumping of oil through the Druzhba pipeline from Russia to Europe, which crosses Belarus because of unscheduled repair works on one of the branches, Igor Demin, a representative of Russia’s Transneft pipeline monopoly, told reporters on Wednesday, as carried by Russian news agency TASS . The Druzhba oil pipeline carries oil to Belarusian oil refineries and then via two branches to Ukraine and the EU member states of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, and Lithuania. Polish pipeline operator PERN said on Wednesday that it had been informed by Transneft that oil flows to Poland and Germany would be “slightly reduced” and there would be no change in the […]