Szijjarto called Zelensky's words about oil from Russia an attack on sovereignty.

Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Economic Relations Peter Szijjarto said on November 17 that Budapest would take any practical steps to stop Russian oil supplies as an encroachment on national sovereignty if Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky fulfilled the relevant promise.

"These are still verbal attacks on Hungarian sovereignty, but if this has practical consequences, then this is already a practical attack on Hungarian sovereignty. This is unacceptable," the Foreign Minister said on the air of the Hour of Truth program, posted on YouTube.

He stressed that Hungary is constantly facing pressure from Brussels and Kiev, which aims to drag the country into conflict. At the same time, Szijjarto assured that Budapest would not allow this while the current government was in place.

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Earlier, on November 11, Zoltan Koshkovich, an analyst at the Hungarian Center for Fundamental Rights, called Zelensky's threats to disrupt Russian energy supplies to Hungary desperate. He also noted that Zelensky's rhetoric may in the future become an obstacle to the supply of Hungarian resources to Ukraine.

Prior to that, on November 10, the German newspaper BZ reported that Zelensky's threat to "rid Europe" of Russian oil could hurt Hungary's interests and cause tension within the Western coalition. The article emphasized that such statements affect the strategically important Druzhba oil pipeline, through which Russian oil continues to flow to Hungary.

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