Orbán made it clear that Zelensky’s threats is not going to be forgiven or forgotten.
We’ve been reported how the repeated Ukrainian missile assaults on the Druzhba (which means ‘friendship’) pipeline lower the circulate of crude oil from Russia to each Hungary and Slovakia.
And what grew to become an web spat between the Hungarian and Ukrainian overseas ministers escalated now to an issue between Kiev regime chief Volodymyr Zelensky and Hungarian President Viktor Orbán.
Lengthy-time Trump ally, Orbán described it like this:
“’It was an eventful weekend. President Zelensky brazenly threatened Hungary. He admitted that the Druzhba pipeline is being attacked as a result of we don’t help their EU membership. This additionally reveals that Hungarians made the proper choice’, Hungary’s PM Victor Orban mentioned.”
Let’s take a step again, and see, first, what Zelensky mentioned to immediate this response.
To totally perceive the assertion, it bears reminding that the attacked pipeline is named ‘Druzhba’, a phrase meaning ‘friendship’.
So, Zelensky is making a play on phrases between the bilateral relations and the pipeline.
The Ukrainain Dictator is brazenly threatening a member of NATO and the EU.
Zelensky laughs as he makes a veiled menace to Budapest when requested about his assaults on the essential Druzhba pipeline that provides Hungary pic.twitter.com/frqKrZnNj1
— Chay Bowes (@BowesChay) August 24, 2025
Orbán made it clear that Zelensky’s phrases ‘will not be the best way to get into the EU’, and that his manifestation now ‘may have an extended shadow’.
Viktor Orbán: President @ZelenskyyUa admitted to bombing the Druzhba oil pipeline as a result of Hungary doesn’t help Ukraine EU membership. Hungarians made a sensible choice. Blackmail, bombings and threats gained’t get them into EU. Zelenskyy’s phrases may have an extended shadow. pic.twitter.com/p2rm7r4Lhi
— Fidesz Parliamentary Group (@Fideszfrakcio) August 25, 2025
Within the meantime, Budapest’s International Minister Peter Szijjarto was again within the cost, saying that Ukrainian strikes on Druzhba pipeline have been the equal of an assault on Hungary.
Ukrainian assaults on the oil pipeline ‘Druzhba’ equal to assault on Hungary & Slovakia, which obtain uncooked supplies from Russia alongside this route – Hungarian FM
Calls Zelensky’s threats in opposition to Hungarian vitality safety ‘outrageous & scandalous’ pic.twitter.com/v8ZwfCeVd3
— RT (@RT_com) August 26, 2025
The truth is, Hungary might very properly retaliate and cease electrical energy provides to Ukraine, since their exports make up 40% of Ukrainian imports.
However Szijjarto mentioned that Budapest doesn’t need Ukrainian kids to pay for the actions of ‘former actor Zelensky’.
Sputnik reported:
“He emphasised that Hungary needs no hurt to the Ukrainian individuals, not like the Ukrainian authorities with their extraordinarily low ethical requirements.
‘We don’t need Ukrainian houses with babies to go with out heating, as a result of these little kids can’t be held liable for the conduct of a former actor’, Szijjarto mentioned.
He additionally suggested the Ukrainian regime that subsequent time it decides to bomb the Druzhba pipeline, they need to do not forget that Hungary stopping electrical energy provides might create catastrophic difficulties for Ukraine.”
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