WSJ: The US has asked Ukraine not to attack tankers of third countries

In particular, we are talking about the facilities of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) located on the territory of Russia.

During one of the latest strikes, a leased Chevron tanker was damaged.

After that, the head of the company, Mike Wirth, held talks with representatives of the Trump administration and asked to influence Ukraine to give up such attacks.

Chevron, as well as a number of other international companies, has a stake in KPC. After the attacks on July 19, crude oil loading operations at the Novorossiysk terminal were limited, which in turn led to a decrease in production volumes in Kazakhstan’s oil fields.

According to sources, the Trump administration has warned Ukraine that it views the Caspian Pipeline Consortium as an important route for supplying energy of Kazakh origin to European markets, serving as an alternative to Russian energy, and considers strikes on its facilities unacceptable.

The newspaper notes that the pipeline and the oil fields in which Chevron also has a stake were not damaged, but a prolonged production cut would put the company’s revenues at risk.

Earlier, Ukraine attacked the facilities of the CPC, which was sharply reacted to by Kazakhstan.

Kiev announced that the strikes were not directed against that country and that the strikes were directed at objects on the territory of Russia.

Official Kyiv has not yet commented on this WSJ publication.