Hungary places a condition on Ukraine to pass European sanctions on Russia.. What is it?
It will disable Hungary authenticates the Twenty sanctions that European Union imposed on Russia, unless you return Ukraine The opening of a major oil pipeline supplying the country with oil from Moscow, the prime ministers of Hungary and Slovakia announced.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban wrote on the X platform: "No support for sanctions, the twentieth package will be rejected"
In turn, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto wrote: "Until Ukraine resumes oil transportation to Hungary and Slovakia via the Druzhba pipeline, we will not allow important decisions to be made for Kiev."
Ukraine says that the pipeline that passes through its territory and transports Russian oil to Slovakia and Hungary was damaged by strikes launched by Moscow on January 27.
Activating the anti-coercion tool
The European Union proposed in early February to impose new sanctions targeting the banking and energy sectors in Russia, and this proposed package is the twentieth since the start of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24. 2022.
The sanctions are required to obtain the approval of all 27 member states of the European Union, before they become effective.
The European Commission also intends to activate its anti-coercion tool for the first time, to ban the export of all wireless machinery and equipment to countries as the risk of their re-export to Russia increases.
Cutting electricity to Ukraine
And on Sunday evening, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said that he would proceed He went ahead with his threats to cut off emergency electricity supplies to Ukraine if Kiev did not reopen the pipeline.
In a Facebook post, he said: "On Monday, I will request that emergency electricity supplies to Ukraine be halted"
He added: "If Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asks us to buy oil from other than Russia, even if it costs us a lot of money, we have the right to respond.".
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