Hungary begs Ukraine to spare Russian oil pipelines after drone strike cuts off flow – POLITICO

Budapest has refused to reduce its dependence on Russian fossil fuels despite the war raging next door.

Shipments of Russian oil to Hungary were interrupted on Tuesday after Ukraine launched a major wave of drone strikes against Moscow , just months after Budapest secured a sweetheart deal with Kyiv that allows it to keep buying supplies of fuel despite the invasion. In a video statement posted online, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said that "oil deliveries on the Druzhba oil pipeline to Hungary had to be temporarily suspended" following the drone attack. "I have just spoken to Russia's deputy energy minister, who said that a drone hit at a measuring station has made deliveries impo

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