Russian crude oil flows to Hungary and Slovakia via the Druzhba pipeline were halted on Monday, officials in Hungary and Slovakia said, with Budapest blaming a Ukrainian attack on a transformer station.
Unlike most other EU countries, Hungary has kept up its reliance on Russian energy since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
It imports most of its crude via the Druzhba pipeline, which runs through Belarus and Ukraine to Hungary and also Slovakia.
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The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday, commenting on the Ukrainian attack on an oil pipeline leading to Hungary, that Ukraine will stop at nothing.
ReplyDelete“For all these years, Russia has been warning the ideologues - those from the Obama-Maidan club - who’ve been fostering the Kiev regime, that this immoral and bloodthirsty monster will never stop and, like a filthy contagion, will spread throughout the world. In Africa, they have already committed terrorist attacks. They’ve popped up in the Middle East. They’ve sucked Central Asian citizens into terrorism. They’ve taken control of the illegal arms trade in Europe. [And] they've perfected black market organ transplants for Western clients. Bankovaya ( UA GOV) will stop at nothing now,” Maria Zakharova wrote on Telegram.
Earlier in the day, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said that oil supplies to Hungary had been suspended indefinitely due to another attack by Ukraine on an oil pipeline.
On August 13, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto said that overnight, Ukraine had carried out a drone attack on a key distribution station of the Druzhba oil pipeline in Russia’s Bryansk Region. According to him, the pipeline is used to deliver raw materials from Russia to Hungary, "supplies Hungary with oil and is vital to our energy security." Due to this, Szijjarto demanded that Ukraine stop launching strikes on Russian facilities used to deliver energy products to Hungary.
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