MOSCOW: Clean Russian oil is expected to reach a border with Belarus via a pipeline on April 29, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak was quoted by Russian newswires as saying on Thursday.

Kozak also said that Russia, Poland and Belarus are expected to hold talks on Friday to discuss how to partially withdraw contaminated Russian oil from the Druzhba pipeline running via those two countries.

In Russia, contaminated oil has already been pumped into storage, Kozak was quoted as saying.