By Gleb Bryanski
MOSCOW, April 21 (Reuters) - Russia is set to stop oil exports from Kazakhstan to Germany via the Druzhba pipeline starting from May 1, three industry sources said on Tuesday.
The sources, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity, said that the adjusted oil exporting schedule has been sent to Kazakhstan and Germany.
Russia's political and business relations with Germany have been frayed over the conflict in Ukraine, which is supported by Berlin.
Russia's energy ministry did not
immediately reply to a request for comment.
Germany placed the local units of Russia's largest oil producer, Rosneft under trusteeship in 2022 upending Berlin's decades-long energy ties with Russia.
Kazakhstan's oil exports to Germany via Russia's Druzhba pipeline totalled 2.146 million metric tons, or around 43,000 barrels per day, in 2025, an increase of 44% compared with 2024.
Kazakhstan supplies oil to Germany via northern spur of Druzhba, which traverses Poland.
Supplies have been repeatedly interrupted by Ukrainian drone attacks on the pipeline in Russia.
Germany's PCK refinery - one of the country's largest - in the northeastern town of Schwedt is supplied in part by Kazakh crude transported via the pipeline, after a stop in Russian oil deliveries in the wake of the start of the Moscow's conflict with Ukraine in 2022.
(Reporting by Gleb Bryanski; Writing by Vladimir Soldatkin)
