Orban threatens to lift EU sanctions against Russia if gas transit through Ukraine is not resumed - Bloomberg
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said that Hungary may seek the lifting of EU sanctions against Russia if Russian gas transit through Ukraine is not resumed.
This is reported by Bloomberg, Censor.NET informs.
"If the promise is broken, we will not just offer to lift the sanctions, we will lift them," Orban said.
According to him, the suspension of Russian gas supplies through Ukraine is unacceptable, as it raises energy prices in Central Europe.
Meanwhile, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said that the European Union had provided Budapest with energy security guarantees, pledging to protect the supply of natural gas and oil pipelines to the EU.
"Hungary has received the requested guarantees of our country's energy security. The European Commission has committed itself to protecting the supply of natural gas and oil pipelines leading to the EU states," he wrote.
Stopping Russian gas transit
As a reminder, at 07:00 a.m. on January 1, 2025, the transportation of Russian natural gas through Ukraine was stopped in the interests of national security.
The Cabinet of Ministers said that Ukraine had duly informed the European Commission about the termination of gas transit. European countries are prepared.
Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico has also previously threatened to stop exporting electricity to Ukraine and significantly reduce support for Ukrainian refugees in response to the cessation of Russian gas transit through Ukrainian territory.
Recently, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a "beggar and blackmailer."
Earlier it was reported that Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was "obviously mistaken" in hoping that his shadowy schemes with Moscow would exist indefinitely.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Ukraine will not continue transit of Russian gas, even if it is transportation of gas that formally belongs to "another country" that will receive gas from Russia.
