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Feb 22 (Reuters) - Kazakhstan may send the first batch
of oil via Russia's Druzhba pipeline to Germany in the coming
days, possibly on Wednesday, Russia's RIA state news agency
cited Kazakhstan's Energy Minister Bolat Akchulakov as saying on
Wednesday.
"I really hope that it will go today," Akchulakov said.
Kazakh supplies are meant to replace those of Russian crude
that the European Union pledged to stop buying as part of wider
sanctions prompted by Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
The Soviet-built Druzhba pipeline remains exempt from
sanctions, but Germany's refineries in Leuna and Schwedt - which
are connected to the pipeline - have not ordered any Russian
crude for this year.
(Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Editing by Muralikumar
Anantharaman and Tom Hogue)
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