Ukraine has suspended the pumping of Russian oil to Hungary

“Transneft» received a notification from Ukraine about the suspension of oil pumping through the Druzhba pipeline to Hungary due to a voltage drop, informed official representative of the company Igor Demin in a comment to TASS.

“We received information from the Ukrainian side that pumping was suspended due to a voltage drop,” he said.

After that, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban convened a meeting of the country’s security council, reported on the Prime Minister’s official website.

“Prime Minister Viktor Orban convened a meeting of the Defense Council in connection with the shutdown of the Druzhba oil pipeline and a missile strike in Poland,” the statement said.

National Security Committee emergency meeting earlier today convened Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, the reason for this was the reports of local media about a rocket attack on the village of Przewodow in eastern Poland, as a result of which, as noted, two people were killed.

Prior to this, the Ukrainian media and officials reported explosions on the country’s energy infrastructure. Today also happened an emergency shutdown of one of the power lines through which Moldova receives electricity from Romania, which led to massive power outages throughout the country.

The Druzhba pipeline was built in the 1960s. for the delivery of oil from the USSR to the countries of the socialist camp in Eastern Europe. It starts in the Samara region and passes through Bryansk, and then splits into two branches: northern and southern. The northern branch passes through Belarus to Poland, Germany and the Baltic countries, the southern branch passes through the territory of Ukraine to the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia. According to Transneft, fuel exports via Druzhba to non-CIS countries in 2021 amounted to 35.9 million tons.

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