Trump never told Hungary to stop Russian oil imports – Minister Szijjártó slams “fake news”
Contrary to press reports, US President Donald Trump has not sent a message to Hungary about halting Russian oil purchases or even a similar message, the foreign minister said on Monday.
“Obviously, there has been no such message, not even a similar one,” Péter Szijjártó said in an interview in the Fight Hour podcast.
No message from Trump
“What’s happening is that pro-war Brusselite politicians attempt to cut even the last energy cooperation ties between Europe and Russia. Clearly, the main loser from this is Europe … Europe’s economy has started weakening and the main reason is that the model of European economic growth has been destroyed,” Szijjártó said.
He added that there were two groups of European states, one that bad-mouthed Russia and even those that bought crude oil from Russia, yet they were doing the same secretly, through Asian intermediaries. The other group consisted of Hungary and Slovakia, which were buying Russian crude oil openly, not secretly, in a way determined by the infrastructure, he added.
Crude oil from Croatia wouldn’t be enough
He said two crude oil pipelines entered Hungary, one from the direction of Russia and the other from Croatia. However, the capacity of the latter was less than the combined demand of Hungary and Slovakia, so it would be physically impossible to supply the two countries solely from that pipeline, he added.
“As a result of the infrastructure and physical reality, Hungary can only operate securely from the point of energy if the Druzhba pipeline operates,” he said. “The pipeline from Croatia is excellent as an auxiliary pipeline, but it is insufficient in itself to supply Hungary and Slovakia,” he added.
Commenting on reports about potential further US restrictions in sanctions against Russia, he said all moves that point towards an escalation of the war were bad news for Hungary.
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someone should send a memo to Mr Szijjarto:
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/04/politics/ukraine-war-trump-security-guarantees
There is no hypocrite man than Szijjártó & Orbán but Trump.
He sanctioned India for being the second Russian oil buyer, while China is number one but he did nothing!!!!!
Spot on, Rádzs. Not to mention Russia herself is avoiding Trump’s new sanctions that are always “two weeks” from now.
Really, Peter. Is that a fact? No, it is not. By the way, do you consider Hungary to be part of Europe? Despite your government’s actions on NATO and EU issues, you are. Get used to it.