Pipeline Dispute Shows Central Europe’s Struggle to Cut Ties with Russian Oil
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Deliveries were halted after the attack.


Hungary and Slovakia still source a lot of oil from Russia. Drushba pipeline, through which they are supplied, has recently been damaged several times by Ukrainian attacks.
Ukraine Bets Hungary Won’t Retaliate for Pipeline Strikes—or That It Won’t Matter
Tensions between Budapest and Kyiv have continued to escalate after a series of deliberate attacks on the Druzhba (‘Friendship’) oil pipeline, which delivers Russian crude oil to Hungary and Slovakia. Hungarian officials have called the strikes “outrageous and unacceptable,” accusing Ukraine of threatening their national energy security. Gergely Gulyás, chief of staff to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, called the attacks “violations of national sov…
Pipeline dispute shows Central Europe’s struggle to cut ties with Russian oil
Central Europe has been plunged into fresh energy anxiety after a series of Ukrainian drone strikes disrupted the flow of Russian oil through the Druzhba pipeline, igniting a war of words between Kyiv, Budapest and Bratislava.
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