Belarus to seek compensation for losses over contaminated oil: Belta

[May 17, 2019]  MINSK (Reuters) - Belarus plans to seek compensation for direct and indirect losses incurred by the contamination of oil via the Druzhba pipeline, Belta news agency cited Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Lyashenko as saying on Friday.

Flows through the Druzhba pipeline were suspended late last month due to contaminated crude in the system, sending shockwaves through global oil markets.

(Reporting by Andrei Makhovsky; writing by Tom Balmforth; editing by Susan Fenton)

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