Czech Republic independent from Russian oil

On April 17, Prime Minister Petr Fiala announced that the Czech Republic had yet ended its dependence on Russian oil supplies. On that day, for the first time in history, the country was supplied exclusively with oil from countries another than Russia and only via the interconnecting TAL (from the Italian port of Trieste to confederate Germany) and IKL (from the Bavarian Ingolstadt to the Czech Republic) oil pipelines. This is the consequence of the implementation of the TAL-PLUS project, approved in the autumn of 2022, which importantly increased the anticipation of transporting oil along this way (see.