Hungarian minister accuses EU of stopping Russian oil transit through Ukraine
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Hungary's Foreign Minister accused the EU of cutting off Russian oil supplies through Ukraine. Hungary is demanding the resumption of transit, which accounts for a third of its oil imports.
On July 30, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó accused the European Union's Executive Commission of organizing the cessation of Russian oil supplies through Ukraine and warned that these contradictions could lead to an energy crisis. Sijjarto claims that “despite the threat to the energy security of two EU member states... it was Brussels, not Kyiv, that came up with all this.” This was reported by AR, according to UNN .
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Ukraine imposed sanctions against the Russian company Lukoil back in 2018, and this year it strengthened them by stopping the transit of its oil to Hungary and Slovakia, among others.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó called the decision “unacceptable and incomprehensible, especially from a country that is seeking to join the EU, especially given Ukraine's imports of electricity from Hungary.
Budapest wants to resume supplies to Lukoil as soon as possible, from which it receives about two million tons of oil a year. This is a third of Hungary's total imports, and there are no alternative routes other than through Ukraine.
