#BREAKING | — Hungary Deploys Troops to Guard Energy Sites Amid Ukraine Tensio…

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced that the military will be deployed, along with additional equipment and police patrols, to protect key energy infrastructure.

He accused Ukraine of planning disruptions to Hungary’s energy system, citing intelligence reports, amid an ongoing outage on the Druzhba oil pipeline that supplies Russian crude to Hungary and Slovakia.

Orbán described the pipeline halt—ongoing since late January—as a “political oil blockade” by Kyiv, though Ukraine attributes it to Russian drone strikes and denies deliberate interference.

Additional measures include a ban on drone operations in the border county of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg.

Hungary has also threatened to block EU financial support and sanctions measures related to Ukraine until oil flows resume, further straining relations within the bloc.

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