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PM Orbán’s latest offer to Zelensky: EU money for Russian crude – here’s Ukraine’s answer
If Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wants his money from Brussels, he must reopen the Druzhba pipeline, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in a video on Facebook on Tuesday, adding: “if there is no oil, there is no money.” Zelensky made an important promise to the EU yesterday concerning the pipeline.
Orbán’s offer: Russian oil for EU money
Orbán said he had just coordinated with the president of the European Council and Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico over Ukraine’s oil blockade. Hungary’s stance, he said, remained “unchanged”: “If President Zelensky wants to receive his money from Brussels, then he must reopen the Druzhba oil pipeline.” Orbán said Ukraine had refused expert talks last week and was “openly admitting” it would not allow cheap Russian oil to reach Hungary.
“It seems to me that they are using the entire oil blockade to intervene in the Hungarian elections in support of the Tisza Party,” he said. “That is why the situation is extremely simple: if there is no oil, there is no money.”
‘Time to stop this political theatre and reopen the Druzhba pipeline today’, FM Szijjártó says
Péter Szijjártó, the minister of foreign affairs and trade, on Tuesday called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to “stop this political threatre” and immediately restore oil flows through the Druzhba pipeline.
Responding to von der Leyen’s post on X, hailing Brussels’ “sudden awakening” to Ukraine’s oil blockade of Hungary and Slovakia, Szijjarto said it had taken the EC “nearly 50 days to notice” the situation, adding that “this is a coordinated political move.”
“Every step was coordinated between Kyiv and Brussels,” he said, according to a ministry statement, insisting that joint decisions had been made at the Munich Security Conference and pre-election briefings had been given to the opposition Tisza Party, which, he said, stood to gain from an engineered energy crisis. “They knew full well that an oil blockade could trigger a supply crisis, and that this would help the Tisza Party in the parliamentary election,” he said.
Szijjártó said Hungary would not be caught off guard, having already secured alternative pipelines with Serbia and Slovakia, boosted reserves, and arranged seaborne shipments. “But it’s clear this blockade was pre-planned by Berlin, Brussels and Kyiv. We call on President Zelensky and President von der Leyen to immediately lift the oil blockade of Hungary,” he said.
“The pipeline is perfectly fine; it can deliver oil to Hungary today,” he said. “So, stop this political theatre and reopen the Druzhba pipeline before this day is out.”
Zelensky: Ukraine may reestablish transit soon, the EU will pay for it
Ukraine can restore Russian crude oil transit to Hungary and Slovakia via the damaged Druzhba pipeline within six weeks, President Volodymyr Zelensky has informed the European Council’s António Costa and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in a letter published on the EU Council’s website on Tuesday.
The president highlighted that Russian attacks had completely halted the pumping station in Brody, Lviv region, rendering the Druzhba pipeline inoperable. Without the pumping station, it is technically impossible to maintain the necessary pressure in the pipeline system and ensure the safe transit of oil.
“I am grateful for, and accept, your offer of the necessary technical support and financing so that we can complete the repair work as quickly as possible and explore future solutions,” Zelenskiy replied, according to MTI.
If you missed our previous articles:
- Looming fuel shortage in Hungary? Oil reserves at historic low, quantity limits introduced
- Hungarian delegation member refused to visit Druzhba pipeline for fear of being conscripted
Major backfire and egg on the faces of the Ukraine and Brussels menions, ‘No flow.. no pay’ amazing how money talks and bullshit walks.. 6 weeks until oil flow.. interesting timing !!!!
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That’s not diplomacy. It’s extortion with a press release.
People are taking note. What goes around, comes around.
And again – no word from our Politicians as to WHY energy costs are rising, rapidly. “Peace!” “No War!”. Couldn’t possibly have anything to do with a world war, developing in the Middle East? #callyourfriends #warmongers
Did you forget already, who started all this?
Wow, that’s a small memory.
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Please do educate (or entertain) us?
Where has Orban’s guardian angel gone? People are looking here, people are looking there, Orban is looking for him everywhere.
How can you be so dense to think this hurts Orbán?
A foreign enemy always helps to solidify the leader’s position.
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Foreign policy by friendship: government says Orbán-Trump bond protects Hungary’s interests
https://dailynewshungary.com/government-orban-trump-friendship/
There’s really no arguing about the definition of the word “protection.” But the meaning Orban applies to it seems to have sprung from the mind of a masochist.
Brent crude oil has once again broken the $108 mark today.
Ukraine is a sovereign country. That word “sovereignty” has been used endlessly by Fidesz in support of independent Hungarian action. Well, what right does Hungary have to demand that sovereign Ukraine should assist the country that has been attacking it for four years by facilitating Russian oil sales? Hungary has the ability and the moral obligation to source its’ oil elsewhere. No country in an existential struggle against its’ enemy should be blackmailed (as Hungary seeks to do) into assisting the enemy that seeks to destroy it.