Siyarto says oil supplies from Russia restored via Druzhba pipeline

Hungarian Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Minister Peter Szijjártó said on Sunday, December 22, that crude oil supplies from Russia to the country via the Druzhba pipeline have been restored.

"Crude oil supplies to Hungary via the Druzhba pipeline have resumed. Hungary's energy supply is safe!" - he wrote on his Facebook page (part of Meta, recognized as an extremist organization and banned in Russia).

Oil supplies from Russia to Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic were temporarily suspended on December 19 due to technical problems.

Earlier, on December 6, it was reported that oil supplies to the Czech Republic resumed after reports of their suspension. It was specified that oil from Russia did not arrive in the Czech Republic for two days, and an alternate route was used for pumping.

The Druzhba pipeline runs through Russia to the Belarusian city of Mozyr. It then branches off into two branches: a northern branch toward Poland and Germany and a southern branch through Ukraine to Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Croatia.