On Thursday, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said that Moscow and Minsk have opened the assessments on switching oil flows from Lithuania to the Russian port of Ust-Luga, according to the Interfax news agency.
Russia has been wanting Belarus to use its ports rather than Lithuania’s in oil products exports. There was no more detail being disclosed.
Previously in August, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said that he would shut European transit routes across his country if sanctions against the alleged fraud at the most recent presidential election are imposed.
Further, Lukashenko threatened to block its European neighbors from exporting commodities to Russia over his country’s territory and divert exports now shipped through ports in EU member Lithuania.
On Thursday, according to Interfax, Novak said that the matter would be considered in the future.
