Slovakia and Hungary have increased pressure on Kyiv after they said last week they had stopped receiving oil from Lukoil via Ukraine. Hungary receives 2 million metric tons of oil from the Russian group annually, around a third of its total oil imports, Hungary’s foreign minister Peter Szijjarto said.
The two countries have initiated a consultation with the European Commission, he said, adding the Commission had three days to respond.
If the consultation procedure did not yield results, Hungary and Slovakia would take the issue to an international court of their choosing instead, he said.
The Ukrainian foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment, though the head of Ukrainian energy firm Naftogaz acknowledged a lack of oil from Lukoil.
Putting aside the fact that they really should have been using alternate sources this entire time, what exactly was their plan for if the pipeline, that’s in a war zone, got destroyed either intentionally or by accident (after all Russia has not proven itself to be particularly accurate with its bombings). They’ve had the best part of 2 years to come up with a solution. I assume they simply didn’t bother.
I can appreciate that it’s a problem for them, but it’s a problem that is entirely of their own creation. It’s absolutely not Ukraine’s responsibility to deal with it nor do I think the EU really wants to get involved.
Not only they didn’t bother, but kept actively trying to suck Putin’s dick the whole time.