U.S. President Donald Trump mentioned he received “very indignant” after Ukraine broken a Russian oil pipeline that provides his pal Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s prime minister.
Trump responded to a be aware from Orbán, who complained a couple of Ukrainian drone assault in a single day on Aug. 13 hitting the Druzhba oil pipeline, which provides Hungary, Slovakia and different nations in Central Europe with Russian oil by Ukrainian territory.
“Viktor — I don’t like listening to this. I’m very indignant about it. Inform Slovakia,” Trump wrote in keeping with a letter printed on-line by Orbán’s ruling Fidesz social gathering. “You’re my nice pal,” the U.S. president added.
In his be aware, Orbán wrote that “simply earlier than the historic assembly between President Trump and [Russian President Vladimir] Putin in Alaska,” Ukraine carried out drone strikes on the Druzhba oil pipeline in Russian territory.
The pipeline, which was restored by Aug. 19, was hit once more two days later.
Notably, each strikes have been carried out by the Unmanned Programs Forces of Ukraine, led by Commander Robert Brovdi, who can also be generally recognized by his name signal “Madyar,” referring to his Hungarian ethnicity.
Brovdi introduced his second strike on Telegram with the Hungarian battle cry, “Ruszkik haza!” The phrase means “Russians go house” — a reference to the slogan of Hungarian freedom fighters who confronted the Soviet military in 1956.
Orbán — who has maintained shut ties with the Kremlin even after it launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 — didn’t take the message nicely.
“Hungary helps Ukraine with electrical energy and petrol, in return they bomb pipeline that offer us. Very unfriendly transfer,” he wrote in his missive to Trump.
Since Budapest acquired a short lived exemption from the European Union’s ban on Russian oil, it has elevated its purchases of crude through the overland pipeline community, making main income from discounted crude.
Hungary has repeatedly threatened to veto any EU efforts to additional scale back its dependency on Russian power.