Russian Oil Supplies to Hungary and Slovakia Resume After Ukrainian Strikes
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Russian Oil Supplies to Hungary and Slovakia Resume After Ukrainian Strikes
Russian oil deliveries to Hungary and Slovakia via the Druzhba pipeline resumed on Thursday. Ukrainian attacks on a pumping station in western Russia disrupted shipments, authorities in both countries said.
Slovak Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister Denisa Saková confirmed in a Facebook post that supplies to her country had been restored.
“I hope the operation will remain stable and there will be no more attacks on energy infrastructure,” Saková wrote.
Hungarian oil company MOL also confirmed in a statement emailed to Reuters that oil was once again flowing.
Earlier, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said crude deliveries to Hungary would restart “in test mode with smaller quantities,” while urging Ukraine to halt strikes on the pipeline.
Russia to resume oil supply to Hungary via Druzhba pipeline on August 28
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto announced that oil supplies from Russia to Hungary via the Druzhba pipeline will resume on Thursday, August 28. The update came after SzijJarto held a phone conversation with Russian First Deputy Energy Minister Pavel Sorokin, News.Az reports citing TASS. The Ukrainian armed forces carried out several drone and missile strikes on the pipeline on Russian territory last week.
The update came after Szijjarto held a phone conversation with Russian First Deputy Energy Minister Pavel Sorokin, News.Az reports citing TASS.
“Ukraine’s latest missile and drone strike on the Druzhba pipeline caused such severe damage that repairs are taking days. Russian First Deputy Energy Minister Pavel Sorokin informed me that after intensive work a temporary solution was found, so oil deliveries to Hungary can resume tomorrow in test mode at lower volumes,” the Foreign Minister wrote on Facebook (banned in Russia, owned by Meta Corporation, recognized as extremist in Russia).
Szijjarto also said that “Hungary’s commercial reserves are sufficient” and “there is no need to use our strategic reserves.”
The minister said that Hungary once again calls on Ukraine “to stop attacking the pipeline to Hungary and endangering our energy security.”
Szijjarto called it “outrageous that some Hungarian politicians and media defend the Ukrainians who attacked the pipeline,” while the European Commission only “keeps on claiming there is “no supply risk.”
Last week, the Ukrainian armed forces carried out several drone and missile strikes on the infrastructure of the Druzhba oil pipeline on Russian territory. Oil deliveries to Hungary and Slovakia were suspended while the pipeline was being repaired. Budapest and Bratislava demanded that Kiev stop the attacks and reminded the European Commission that it has undertaken to ensure the energy security of EU countries.
News.Az
Russian oil supply to Hungary and Slovakia resumes after Ukrainian pipeline strike
Russian crude oil supplies to Hungary and Slovakia through the Druzhba pipeline have restarted after an outage caused by a Ukrainian attack in Russia last week. supplies were interrupted repeatedly last week and there had been no flows since August 21 after Ukraine struck the Unecha pumping station on the pipeline.
Slovakia and Hungary continue to cover the majority of their oil needs from Russia and are keen to keep those supplies coming despite European Union efforts to diversify from Russian commodities.
The supplies were interrupted repeatedly last week and there had been no flows since August 21 after Ukraine struck the Unecha pumping station on the pipeline.
Slovak Economy Minister Denisa Sakova informed about the resumption of supplies through the Druzhba pipeline in a Facebook post.
“I hope the operations will remain stable and there will be no more attacks on energy infrastructure,” Sakova said.
MOL, which operates refineries in Hungary and Slovakia, said oil has arrived to both countries, but gave no details.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Wednesday that shipments could resume on Thursday in test mode at lower than standard volumes.
The refineries have covered the outage from their reserves without interrupting operations. A longer-term outage could force the tapping of state reserves and eventually lead to higher imports through an alternative pipeline from Croatia.
Ilgar Khudiyev