In May, Belarus decreased supplies of diesel fuel to the Ukraine by two times
In May of 2015, the balance of the Ukrainian market of light petroleum products (excluding the Crimea) decreased by 25% as compared to the same period last year to 555 thousand tons. The balance of petrol fell by only 5% to 185 thousand tons, and diesel fuel greatly decreased after a positive result in April to 370 hryvnias per tons (-31%). At the same time there is a double collapse of the diesel fuel import from Belarus, which, nevertheless, remains the largest supplier.
In May, the import of petrol import fell by 17% and amounted to 130.5 thousand tons. The leader in the supply of the fuel in the Ukraine is Belarus, but imports from the country decreased again - to 75 thousand tons (-12%). The supply of petrol from Orlen Lietuva decreased by a third - to 16.5 thousand tons. In turn, the imports from Romania and Russia began to return the position, lost earlier. Thus, the Ukraine received almost the same volume of Russian (+ 155%) and Romania (+ 59%) resource - 7.3 thousand tons.