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Slovakia and Hungary have increased pressure on Kyiv after they said last week they had stopped receiving oil from Lukoil via Ukraine. Hungary receives 2 million metric tons of oil from the Russian group annually, around a third of its total oil imports, Hungary's foreign minister Peter Szijjarto said.

The two countries have initiated a consultation with the European Commission, he said, adding the Commission had three days to respond.

If the consultation procedure did not yield results, Hungary and Slovakia would take the issue to an international court of their choosing instead, he said.

The Ukrainian foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment, though the head of Ukrainian energy firm Naftogaz acknowledged a lack of oil from Lukoil.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

These countries had two and a half years to stop sucking Putin's oily tit and they didn't, so while I feel sorry for the civilians caught in this crossfire, I don't feel even slightly sorry for their politicians.

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

I'm also unsympathetic to them due to the fact that they think that the only solution is for the EU to pressure Ukraine into reopening supplies. Rather than them seeking alternate supplies.