Polish company PKN Orlen will demand compensation after Russia stopped supplying oil to Poland via the Druzhba pipeline at the end of February.
The CEO of the company, Daniel Obaitek, said this on Monday on Zet radio, without providing additional details, Reuters reports.
"The Russians have stopped pumping oil to Poland...so now we will file lawsuits and demand damages," he said.
He declined to say the amount of the potential compensation, saying he could not discuss the details of the companies' contracts.
Last March, Poland pledged to stop using Russian oil by the end of 2022, when PKN's long-term contract with Rosneft expired. The agreement with Tatnafta also expires in 2024.
On February 25 of this year, Obaitek announced that Russia had stopped supplying oil through the northern branch of the Druzhba oil pipeline, which leads to Poland. Transportation of raw materials via the Druzhba oil pipeline to the Czech Republic remained unchanged.
In February, Obaitek said that the suspension of the Druzhba pipeline to Poland would not affect PKN Orlen's customers, as Poland has recently received only a tenth of its oil consumption from Russia and is substituting supplies from other sources.
The European Union imposed an embargo on the import of Russian oil from December 5, but "Druzhba" was temporarily exempted from this embargo.