Watch: Orbán Blasts Allegations He's 'Putin's Puppet'
- 31 May 2022 11:40 AM
Source: Euronews
Source: Euronews
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has effectively issued a death threat against Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Péter Szijjártó, the foreign minister, declared at a public forum on Thursday in Sopron. "But Hungary cannot be blackmailed, no matter what threats are made," he said, adding that Zelensky had gone "beyond all limits".
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has had talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the phone, the PM’s communications department told MTI on Tuesday. Orbán and Putin discussed the situations in the Middle East and in Ukraine, as well as the availability of oil and gas supplies crucial for Hungary’s energy security, the statement said.
Hungary does not typically get deliveries via the Strait of Hormuz, but the market impact of the threat to the oil chokepoint could still be felt in the country, Szabolcs Szabo, the senior VP for value chain management at Hungarian oil and gas company MOL told public media.
Hungary has stopped delivering diesel fuel to Ukraine and will only resume it once Ukraine has restarted crude deliveries to Hungary through the Druzhba pipeline, the minister of foreign affairs and trade said in Budapest on Wednesday.
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