Ukraine is blackmailing Hungary and Slovakia with a halt to oil deliveries, an aide to the Hungarian prime minister said on Friday, after the countries stopped receiving oil from Russian group Lukoil.
“Ukraine is blackmailing the two countries that are standing for peace and ceasefire,” Gergely Gulyas told a news conference. “If the situation is not resolved, there will be a fuel shortage... a solution must be found by September.”
Hungary is exploring possible violations of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) norms committed by Ukraine in this situation, Gulyas stressed. Budapest continues insisting on urgently holding consultations with Ukraine mediated by the European Commission (EC) on solving the issue, he added.
On July 17, Ukraine terminated Lukoil’s oil transit through its territory to Hungary and Slovakia because Kiev had put the company on its sanctions list. Oil from Russia is supplied to those countries via the Druzhba oil pipeline passing through Ukraine. Budapest and Bratislava have asked the EC to mediate a consultation procedure with Kiev due to suspension of transit of Russian oil by Ukraine.
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