Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto accused the European Union's Executive Commissionon July 30 of orchestrating a stoppage of some Russian oil supplies into the bloc through Ukraine and warned that the dispute could lead to an energy crisis. Ukraine adopted sanctions against LUKoil in June which prohibited the transit of its oil across the Druzhba pipeline through Ukraine and into Hungary and Slovakia. Szijjarto said that “despite the threat to the energy security of two EU member states…it was Brussels, not Kyiv, that invented the whole thing,” Szijjarto said. Hungary receives most of its crude from Russia, about half of which comes from LUKoil.
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