Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó said that the commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces unit that led the attacks on the Druzhba oil pipeline has been banned from entering Hungary and the Schengen area.
Szijjártó said this today, August 28.
Szijjártó once again stressed that the Druzhba oil pipeline is of key importance for ensuring Hungary's energy supply. Without it, the country cannot be supplied with crude oil.
The Hungarian minister also called the latest attack on the oil pipeline "extremely serious". It took a long time to restore its operation and Budapest was forced to use strategic oil reserves.
He again stated that Hungary considers the attacks on the Druzhba oil pipeline an attack on its sovereignty and threatened that it will not remain without consequences.
Szijjártó said that in response to the attacks on the oil pipeline, Hungary imposed sanctions on the commander of the unit that led the attacks on the oil pipeline infrastructure. He is banned from entering Hungary and the Schengen zone.
Szijjártó did not name this commander, but later the Hungarian publication 444 wrote, citing the political director of the Hungarian Prime Minister, that it was the commander of the Unmanned Systems Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Robert "Madyar" Brovdi.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, on the night of August 22, the commander of the Unmanned Systems Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Robert Brovdi, stated that the Ukrainian military had struck the Unecha oil pumping station in the Bryansk Oblast. It is an important infrastructure facility of the Druzhba oil pipeline.
On the same day, Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjártó announced that due to damage caused by the Ukrainian attack, oil pumping through the Druzhba pipeline would not be carried out for at least five days.
Yesterday, Szijjártó announced that today, August 28, the Druzhba pipeline would resume oil pumping in Hungary.
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