Latest attack on Druzhba pipeline

The Ukrainian leader was asked at a press conference on Sunday whether the latest attacks on Druzhba, through which oil also flows to Slovakia, had increased Kiev's chances that Budapest would lift its veto on Ukraine's entry into the European Union."We have always supported the Druzhba between Ukraine and Hungary, and now the existence of Druzhba depends on Hungary's position," Ukrainian media quoted Zelensky as saying.

The Ukrainian army shelled the Druzhba oil pipeline for the third time on the night of August 22, which limited the smooth supply of Russian oil to Slovakia and Hungary. The latest strike caused a fire in the infrastructure in the Bryansk region. Both the government of Robert Fico and the cabinet of Viktor Orbán strongly protested against these attacks.

Orbán's government rejects not only Ukraine's entry into NATO, but also into the EU."We don't want to turn the safest state in Europe into a nest of the (Ukrainian) mafia. We don't want Hungarian money to go via Brussels to Ukraine. No, no, no." He also claimed that Ukraine's membership in the union would lead to the liquidation of Hungarian agriculture with its cheap production," Orbán declared, for example, in May of this year. He claims that the entry of a neighboring state, which has been facing a Russian invasion for more than three years, would drag Hungary into war."Ukrainian membership in the EU is our biggest threat," the Hungarian prime minister emphasized at the time.