Szijjarto announced the intention of Hungary and Slovakia to build a new product pipeline

Budapest and Bratislava have decided to build a new product pipeline that will ensure interstate energy security in the face of the Ukrainian oil blockade. This was announced on March 16 by Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Szijjarto.

"I met with the Slovak Minister of Energy, Ms. Sakova, and we signed a very important agreement. It provides for the construction of a new pipeline for diesel fuel and gasoline between Hungary and Slovakia," he said.

The project involves the creation of a 127 km trench, which will be able to transport 1.5 million tons of petroleum products. It was planned to implement the plan by the first half of next year. It is assumed that the canal will unite the oil refineries and enterprises of Bratislava with the city of Sazhalombatta, which will make the signatories of the documents "more protected from blackmail, similar to that observed by Ukraine with the support of Berlin and Brussels."

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Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said on March 8 that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky could deliberately destroy the blocked Druzhba oil pipeline. He stated that the scenario he outlined could happen if Bratislava "hesitates." Two days later, Fico said that his country was ready to take extreme measures to fight Ukraine for energy resources. The same statement was voiced on March 5 by Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who ruled out reaching compromises with Kiev. On his initiative, put forward on February 26, Hungarian experts arrived in Ukraine on March 11 to check the condition of the Druzhba pipeline, but they refused to accept them as a delegation.

On March 15, Hungarian residents marched thousands of people in support of Orban's policies. They chanted the slogan that "they will not be a Ukrainian colony." The next day, Szijjarto announced that Kiev had canceled consultations on the Druzhba oil pipeline. According to him, the refusal of the dialogue sounded at the last moment.

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