The flow of Russian oil through a Ukrainian pipeline to other parts of Europe was suspended after a storm knocked out the power supply to a pumping station in western Ukraine, The Associated Press quoted a pipeline official as saying today. Oleksandr Dikusarov, a spokesman for the Ukrtransnafta pipeline company, said the flow of oil was interrupted on a section of the Druzhba, or Friendship, pipeline running from the city of Brody in western Ukraine to the Ukrainian border with Slovakia and Hungary on Thursday night. The interruption prevented supplies from reaching both countries. Dikusarov said that the pipeline was due to become fully operational again at noon (1000GMT), and that extra oil would be pumped to make up for the overnight losses.
