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Hungary blames Ukraine for the Druzhba pipeline outage and uses energy export restrictions as leverage, supplying 28% of Ukraine's contracted gas in March, analysts say.
- On Wednesday, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced Budapest will gradually suspend natural gas supplies to Ukraine until crude oil flows on the Druzhba pipeline resume, escalating an energy standoff between the two countries.
- Hungary and Slovakia blame Kyiv for the pipeline outage, while Ukrainian authorities claim Russian airstrikes damaged the Druzhba conduit in late January and are working to restore it.
- Ukraine contracted 180 mcm of gas from Hungary this March, accounting for 28% of its total imports; transmission operator data shows shipments continued Wednesday despite Orban's announcement.
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Hungary Threatens to Cut Gas Supply to Ukraine as Long as Kiev Does Not Resume Russian Crude Transit
Viktor Orban has decided to take to the country's most important pipeline a campaign that had already made Kiev an electoral enemy: "As long as Ukraine doesn't give...
Budapest has already suspended the sale of diesel and warned that it will not restore hydrocarbon shipments until the flow of oil to central Europe is normalized.
The gas supply will be temporarily blocked, said Viktor Orbán, without specifying a date for the suspension. Hungarian fuel represented 46% of Ukraine's imports in October.
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Foreign Ministry spokesman Georgy Tykhyi said Hungary would suffer economic losses from Prime Minister Viktor Orban's decision to stop gas supplies to Ukraine.
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