{"id":1359921,"date":"2026-02-19T15:27:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T13:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/hungary-threatens-to-halt-electricity-and-gas-exports-to-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T15:27:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T13:27:05","slug":"hungary-threatens-to-halt-electricity-and-gas-exports-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/hungary-threatens-to-halt-electricity-and-gas-exports-to-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungary threatens to halt electricity and gas exports to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"218\"><strong><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Hungary<\/span><\/span> may suspend electricity and natural gas exports to <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Ukraine<\/span><\/span> if transit of Russian oil through the Druzhba pipeline is not restored.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"220\" data-end=\"420\"> This was stated by Prime Minister <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Viktor Orb\u00e1n&#8217;s<\/span><\/span> Chief of Staff, <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Gergely Guly\u00e1s<\/span><\/span> , during a briefing on February 19, <a href=\"https:\/\/expro.com.ua\/novini\/ugorschina-pogroju-pripiniti-postavki-gazu-ta-elektroenerg-do-ukrani?fbclid=iwy2xjawqd1znlehrua2flbqixmabicmlketf0shz4y1dpsnhjog05b3bgc3j0ywzhchbfawqqmjiymdm5mtc4odiwmdg5mgabhp6m8n0j93e-btzuh2ymrvqioctqq47uw81ctpe2vr0ndbjlsva2om3axnks_aem_bg3lyojngwd2ojb3caasqq\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">ExPro<\/span><\/span><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"422\" data-end=\"725\"> According to him, Budapest is prepared to take appropriate measures if Kyiv does not resume Russian oil supplies via the Druzhba pipeline. Hungary also intends to coordinate its actions with <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Slovakia<\/span><\/span> , which previously announced the possible suspension of electricity exports to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"727\" data-end=\"898\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> In addition, Gulyash reported that the government had decided to release strategic oil reserves following an appeal from the state-owned company <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">MOL<\/span><\/span> .<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/uhorshchyna-prosyt-khorvatiiu-pro-postachannia-rosiyskoi-nafty-cherez-adria-pislia-zupynky-druzhby\/\">Hungary initiated negotiations with Croatia on transporting Russian oil<\/a> via the Adriatic route following the cessation of transit via the Druzhba pipeline, which runs through Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> As reported, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/khorvatiia-vidmovylasia-transportuvaty-rosiysku-naftu-dlia-uhorshchyny-ta-slovachchyny\/\">Croatia responded to Hungary and Slovakia&#8217;s request<\/a> to transport Russian oil via the Adria pipeline.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hungary may suspend electricity and natural gas exports to Ukraine if transit of Russian oil through the Druzhba pipeline is not restored. This was stated by Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n&#8217;s Chief of Staff, Gergely Guly\u00e1s , during a briefing on February 19, ExPro reports. According to him, Budapest is prepared to take appropriate measures if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":222004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76875,76894],"class_list":["post-1359921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}