Hungary has imposed a travel ban on the commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces after three consecutive attacks on the Druzhba oil pipeline on Russian territory.
The attacks halted oil imports to Hungary and to Slovakia for days. The sanction was announced by Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó, who said the country considered the pipeline attacks a threat to national sovereignty.
“We have decided to ban the commander of the military unit that carried out the recent extremely serious attacks on the Friendship oil pipeline from Hungary and from the entire Schengen area,” Szijjártó said.
“This Ukrainian citizen will not be allowed to enter Hungary or the Schengen area in the coming years,” the minister added.
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister, Andrii Sybiha, replied to his Hungarian counterpart on X, denouncing Szijjártó’s statement as shameless and announcing countermeasures.
“Peter, if the Russian pipeline is more important to you than the Ukrainian children killed by Russia this morning, this is a moral decay. Hungary is on the wrong side of history. We’ll take mirror action,” the minister said.
According to Euronews, Brovdi was appointed to lead the key unit in June and admitted earlier on his personal Facebook account that his units were behind the attacks on the pipelines.
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