Overview
- Incoming prime minister Péter Magyar said Russian crude to Hungary through the Druzhba pipeline may restart next week.
- Magyar said MOL CEO Zsolt Hernádi told him deliveries would resume and will travel to Russia to discuss supply terms.
- The pipeline has been shut since January after a drone strike damaged infrastructure that carries Russian oil through Ukraine.
- Magyar said Viktor Orbán would lift his procedural veto once oil deliveries restart.
- Hungary has relied on alternative supplies through Croatia’s Adriatic pipeline and agreed to buy U.S. oil as a backup.