Blocking oil transit ‘devised’ in Brussels, not Kiev — Hungarian top diplomat

The decision to suspend the transit of Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia was devised not in Kiev but in Brussels to blackmail the countries seeking peace, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said.

"More than a week has passed, but the European Commission has done nothing. There are only two scenarios. The European Commission is either too weak to make the candidate country (Ukraine) respect the fundamental interests of the two EU member states, or this whole thing was invented not in Kiev, but in Brussels, and not the Ukrainian government, but the European Commission wants to blackmail the two countries standing for peace," the top diplomat wrote on his Facebook page.

"The European Commission and personally Ursula von der Leyen must immediately give an answer whether it was they who instructed Kiev to block oil supplies. And if not, why the European Commission did not take any action within a week," the foreign minister added.

Szijjarto reiterated that the suspension of the transit of Russian oil undermined the energy security of the two EU states and was a direct violation of the association agreement with the EU.