Overview

• Oil flows through the Druzhba pipeline to Hungary and Slovakia remain suspended following explosions and fire at the Unecha pumping station in Russia’s Bryansk region.
• Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó publicly blamed Ukraine for disabling the pipeline and cautioned Kyiv about its reliance on Hungarian electricity.
• Slovak operator Transpetrol confirmed that crude deliveries to Slovakia have stopped and noted the disruption occurred outside its territory.
• Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha neither confirmed nor denied involvement and said Hungary can direct its complaints to Moscow.
• This is the second alleged attack on the Druzhba network in two weeks and coincided with a planned White House meeting between Presidents Zelenskyy and Trump.