Tensions escalate: Hungarian foreign minister slams Ukraine over pipeline attacks
“The Hungarian government firmly rejects threats by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and calls on the neighbouring country to stop jeopardising Hungary’s energy security,” Péter Szijjártó, the foreign minister, said on Facebook on Sunday.
Szijjártó said Zelensky had “outrageously threatened Hungary” at a press conference held jointly with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
Answering a question concerning a recent attack on the Druzhba oil pipeline, the Ukrainian president said “friendship between Ukraine and Hungary depends on Hungary’s attitude”.
“We consider sovereignty and territorial integrity as fundamental values of international politics, and respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of every country, just as we expect every other country to do the same,” Szijjártó jarto said.
“In recent days Ukraine has launched serious attacks against the security of our energy supply,” Szijjártó said, adding that the Hungarian government took such attacks as ones against the country’s sovereignty.
“Violating our sovereignty cannot be legitimately explained with a war we have nothing to do with,” he added, and called on Zelensky to stop threatening Hungary and jeopardising its energy security.
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Ukraine keep hitting every Russian pipeline you can to stop the sources of revenue that the evil empire relies on. Hungary shame on you Hungary has had three full years to diversify but chooses not to. Hungarian purchases of Russian oil fund the Russian military to kill Ukrainians. It is Hungary’s traitorous government that attacks Ukrainian sovereignty by assisting Putin’s war of aggression every way it can.
It strikes me as unwise that Hungary relies on energy supplies from an aggressor state that has to pass through pipelines via a country that is under attack by the same aggressor for they could be damaged by either side, even unintentionally. The lack of diversification appears to be negligent.
You wouldn’t leave your car parked in a war zone and expect it to remain intact when you returned if you could at all help it. You wouldn’t store goods in a warehouse in the same area while expecting them to remain intact for years on end. Why does Hungary (and Slovakia) expect the pipeline is immune from collateral damage?