Hungary, Slovakia calling on EC to force Ukraine to stop attacks on Druzhba oil pipeline
The foreign ministers of both countries said that oil supplies to Hungary and Slovakia from Russia may be suspended for at least five days as a result of a new attack | Hungary and Slovakia are calling on the European Commission (EC) to force Ukraine to stop attacks on the Druzhba oil pipeline, which carries oil from Russia to Europe, according to a letter from foreign ministers of the two countries, Peter Szijjarto and Juraj Blanar, to Brussels in connection with another attack by the Ukrainian army on the infrastructure of the oil pipeline on Russian territory. [...] Szijjarto said earlier on Friday that the Druzhba oil pipeline had been attacked again by the Ukrainian armed forces, after which oil supplies from Russia to Hungary were suspended. The attack was on the pipeline infrastructure on the Russian-Belarusian border, he said, adding that it was the third one in a short period of time. There were also reports from Slovakia about the halt in supplies of raw materials.
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