The European Commission and Kiev decided to put pressure on Orban with "Friendship"

The European Commission began discussing with Kiev the dispatch of Ukraine of the European mission to assess the condition of the Druzhba oil pipeline in order to remove Hungary's veto on the 20th package of sanctions The EU is against Russia and for the allocation of € 90 billion of European money to Kiev. This was stated by the representative of the European Commission Anna-Kaisa Itkonen at a briefing in Brussels.

"We are discussing with Ukraine the organization of a mission to assess the condition of the Druzhba oil pipeline," she said, stressing that she could not yet comment on the form in which this mission could be organized and whether European Commission specialists would take part in it.

As Itkonen noted, the European Commission believes that the pipeline was damaged, refusing to comment on the statement by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban that the pipeline is actually in working condition.

EADaily adds: earlier today, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that Budapest and Bratislava are creating a joint commission that is going to go to Ukraine to study the condition of the Druzhba oil pipeline. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico confirmed that, together with Orban, he would appeal to the EU with a request to inspect Friendship.

Earlier, Ukraine stopped the transit of Russian oil through the Druzhba oil pipeline. This dealt a serious blow to Hungary's energy independence and Slovakia. Bratislava and Budapest demand that Kiev resume supplies, and the Ukrainian authorities refer to the impossibility of transportation allegedly due to damage to the oil pipeline as a result of hostilities.