
Zelensky: Druzhba Pipeline Repairs Will Be Finished in Exchange for EU Cash
On Friday the Ukrainian president said the flow of Russian crude to Hungary and Slovakia would be restored by late spring, but only if the EU provides financing.

On Friday the Ukrainian president said the flow of Russian crude to Hungary and Slovakia would be restored by late spring, but only if the EU provides financing.

Sanctions have reduced the Kremlin’s margins, but they have neither curbed its exports nor eased Europe’s energy crisis.

The European Commission is accused of acting as “the Commission of Ukraine” in the dispute between Budapest, Bratislava and Kyiv.

“Zelensky has shut down the Druzhba oil pipeline. With this, he interfered in the Hungarian elections,” Viktor Orbán said.

The Hungarian PM said Ukraine stopping the flow of oil through the Druzhba pipeline is a “calculated act of coercion.”