KIEV, Oct. 29 – The rubber objects in oil that caused the temporarily failure of oil meters on the Slovak and Hungarian sections of the Druzhba pipeline could not have originated in Ukraine, Ukrtransnafta, the operator of Ukraine's oil transport system, said.

The company said that after examinations by an international commission, the rubber objects were classified as technological. Earlier reports in the media that condoms and baby pacifiers were found in the oil are untrue, the company said.