Ukraine fills "Friendship"

Ukrtransnafta has started filling the Druzhba oil pipeline to resume Russian oil supplies to Slovakia and Hungary.

"In the morning, the pipeline began to be pressurized and filled with oil. Deliveries to Slovakia and Hungary should resume tomorrow," writes the Ukrainian telegram channel TOP Energy.

Before that, Hungarian MOL informed market participants that it had received a message from Ukrtransnafta about the completion of repair work.

"And the force majeure conditions in force from January 27, 2026, ceased from 18.00 on April 21, 2026. According to the notification, Ukrtransnafta JSC is ready to resume the transit of crude oil to Hungary and Slovakia," said the Hungarian company, which is the main recipient of Russian oil and operates a refinery in Hungary and Slovakia.

As EADaily reported, the transit of Russian oil through Ukraine was stopped at the end of January, stating that a Russian drone damaged the station in Brody. Bratislava and Budapest doubted Kiev's statements and demanded admission to the station itself, but they were refused. As well as EU missions.

The Hungarian authorities accused Kiev of trying to influence the parliamentary elections in the country. After the victory of the opposition, Ukraine announced the imminent resumption of supplies. The future Prime Minister of Hungary and the winner of the elections, Peter Magyar, made a sharp statement and demanded that the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, resume the transit of Russian oil through the Druzhba pipeline.

Simultaneously with the news about the resumption of Russian oil supplies, the Ukrainian media began reporting new attacks by the Kiev regime on the Druzhba oil pipeline — in Russia. So, on April 21, drones of the Security Service of Ukraine attacked the Samara line production and dispatch station in The lumen of the Samara region, the Ukrainian media reported.

"According to preliminary data, the SBU drones damaged 5 tanks with a capacity of 20 thousand cubic meters each with crude oil," Ukrainska Pravda wrote, citing sources in the SBU.