Repeated Ukrainian military strikes on infrastructure have underscored Hungary’s heavy dependence on Druzhba. Currently, 58 percent of the country’s oil — about 5.7 million tons annually — arrives via the line to the refineries in Szazhalombatta and Bratislava.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó has said that the Russian Druzhba oil pipeline has resumed operations and expressed hope that Ukraine will no longer conduct new attacks on it.

The European Commission is in contact with Slovakia and Hungary after they appealed to it following the attack on the Druzhba oil pipeline, calling it a threat to Russian oil supplies. Source: European Pravda,