Polish authorities have been on high alert since Tuesday evening as a leak was discovered along the pipeline line. oil Friendship.

The Polish pipeline operator PERN announced this morning that the cause of the leak, which occurred about 70 kilometers from the city of Plock, is currently unknown.

The second line of the gas pipeline in Poland, as well as the rest of the PERN infrastructure and services, are operating as usual.

However, according to Reuters, Senior Polish officials said there were no signs of possible sabotage, stressing that it was likely an accident.

At the same time, the Czech oil pipeline operator MERO said it did not detect any changes in oil flows in the country.

Friendship pipeline

The pipeline “Druzhba” (meaning “friendship”) with a length of up to 4,000 kilometers is one of the longest and longest oil pipelines in the world.

Its network transports oil from Russia and crosses Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Austria and Germany, among others.

It is noted that the transfer of oil from this pipeline is currently exempt from European sanctions against Russia for the war in Ukraine.

In August, the flow of Russian oil to the Czech Republic through Druzhba was interrupted for more than a week due to problems with the payment of transit fees as a result of Western sanctions against Russia.

This leak occurred shortly after a similar leak in the Nord Stream pipeline in the Baltic, which was attributed to sabotage, but no one has officially named who is behind this case.