KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine attacked the Druzhba oil pipeline in Russia’s Bryansk region, inflicting “comprehensive fire damage”, the commander of its drone forces, Robert Brovdi, said on messaging app Telegram on Sunday.
Reuters could not independently verify the reports. There was no immediate comment from Russia.
The transit pipeline delivers Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia, which continue to buy energy supplies from Russia, even after other European Union nations cut ties following its invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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A spokesperson for Hungarian refiner MOL said that crude oil deliveries to the country were running on schedule.
Slovak Economy Minister Denisa Sakova said in a Facebook post that oil supplies to Slovakia were unaffected.
Kyiv says its strikes on Russian energy targets, in response to Moscow’s continued attacks on Ukraine, aim to undermine the adversary’s overall war effort.
Oil shipments to both countries have been disrupted several times in recent weeks by Ukrainian attacks on the pipeline, which runs from Russia through Ukraine to reach Slovakia.
(Reporting by Olena Harmash and Pavel Polityuk in Kyiv, additional reporting by Alan Charlish in Warsaw, Jason Hovet in Prague; Writing by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Editing by William Mallard, Clarence Fernandez and Tomasz Janowski)
