Day: February 23, 2026

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Russia is not a member of the EU and your government is siding with Moscow. Ukraine is a candidate member of the EU and its territory is illegally occupied. Your dependency on Russian energy is enabling that occupation, although if the polls in Hungary are anything to go by, this state of affairs is coming to an end soon.Péter Szijjártó (@FM_Szijjarto)The situation is simple. Hungary and Slovakia are members of the European Union. Ukraine is not. Yet Brussels is siding with Ukraine against its own member states.

But at today’s Foreign Affairs Council, the discussion will once again focus on putting pressure on Hungary rather than on Ukraine.

Meanwhile, there is no technical or operational reason preventing the restart of oil transit to Hungary and Slovakia via the Druzhba pipeline.

It’s therefore obvious that Ukraine’s decision is purely political, an attempt to pressure Hungary in coordination with Brussels and the Hungarian opposition.

We will not give in to blackmail.—  https://x.com/FM_Szijjarto/status/2025887690579673383

— Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) Feb 23, 2026

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— Reuters (@Reuters) Feb 23, 2026

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— The Hill (@thehill) Feb 23, 2026