Relations between Kiev and Budapest are deteriorating after Ukraine's attacks on the Druzhba oil pipeline. Hungary took another step towards cooling them down, and Ukrainian officials immediately retaliated. The head of Polish diplomacy also entered the dispute.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

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Let us recall that Viktor Orbán's government was very angry when the Ukrainians repeatedly struck Druzhba. This led to the interruption of oil supplies to Hungary and also to Slovakia. The pipeline has been operating again since this Thursday, but in a limited form. In Budapest, they not only strongly condemned the attacks on the pipeline on Russian territory, but also banned the commander of Ukrainian unmanned systems from entering Hungarian territory. In fact, this means that he would not be able to travel to any country in the Schengen area, including Slovakia as an EU member state. His name is Robert Brovdi, he has Hungarian nationality, and he wears his nickname Magyar on the patch of his military uniform. He directed the strikes on Druzhba and highly praised the results of the attacks.

When Brovdi learned that Orbán's supporters had banned him from entering the country of his ancestors, he decided to use harsh words. We would probably be hard-pressed to find a Hungarian living abroad who would send such a sharp message to the Hungarian prime minister."Put your sanctions and restrictions on visiting Hungary up your ass, Mr. Bone Dancer. I am Ukrainian and I will come to my father's homeland after you. There are many real Hungarians living in Hungary and one day you will get bored of them," Brovdi wrote on the social network Telegram.

By dancing on bones, Brovdi apparently meant that by buying Russian oil, Orbán is helping to finance Putin's war against Ukraine."You are participating in the multiplication of blood money, in flying missiles and shahids (suicide drones) against peaceful cities in Ukraine. And today, August 28, 2025, dozens of people are being killed in Kiev. Your hands are up to your elbows in Ukrainian blood. And we will remember it," Brovdi added.

The head of Ukrainian diplomacy, Andriy Sybiha, also reacted to the decision to ban Brovdim from entering Hungary. He announced that he had summoned the Hungarian ambassador in Budapest to his ministry to hand him a note of protest in this regard."Our defender of the Hungarian nationality was banned from entering the country of his ancestors. We call on Hungary to refrain from hostile steps and instead engage in a constructive dialogue, for which Ukraine is always ready," Sybiha emphasized in his Telegram post.

Warsaw also reacted to the dispute between Kiev and Budapest. Specifically, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski."While Russian missiles create a deadly rain in Kiev, Hungary bans the entry of a brave ethnic Hungarian who fights for the freedom of Ukraine," Sikorski wrote. At the same time, he made it clear that he does not intend to respect the ban on crossing the Schengen borders:"Commander Hungarian, if you need a break and they do not let you into Hungary, be our guest in Poland."