BUDAPEST, March 11. /TASS/. Oil supplies to Hungary from Russia have been resumed, while the damage to the Druzhba oil pipeline attacked by the Ukrainian armed forces has been repaired, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto said.
"The Russian system operator has repaired the damage inflicted by the Ukrainian drone’s attack, while transportation of crude oil to Hungary via the Druzhba pipeline has been resumed," he wrote on his Facebook page (Facebook is banned in Russia due to its ownership by Meta, which has been designated as extremist).
According to the Hungarian news agency MTI, Russia’s First Deputy Energy Minister Pavel Sorokin told Szijjarto said about the removal of damage to the oil pipeline after the drone attack by Russian specialists and resumption of supplies of Russian oil.
Earlier on Tuesday Szijjarto said in a video address broadcast by the M1 TV channel following a telephone conversation with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak that oil transportation to Hungary had been temporarily suspended after an attack by a Ukrainian drone on one of measuring stations of the Druzhba pipeline.
Budapest considers the Ukrainian army’s drone attacks on the Druzhba oil pipeline or any other energy infrastructure used for delivering supplies from Russia to Europe unacceptable, Szijjarto noted, adding that the country's government regards such actions as a threat to its energy sovereignty.
Hungary has repeatedly raised this issue in Brussels, and the European Commission has given assurances regarding its energy security, the minister said. Unfortunately, this is the second case of the European Commission failing to uphold its guarantees, he stressed. Previously, the Ukrainian armed forces attacked a measuring station of the TurkStream gas pipeline with a drone.