“To be clear: deliveries of crude oil via the BrotherhoodPipeline have continued and there is currently no security of supply issue”, declared the European Commissioner for Trade, Valdis Dombrovskis, on Friday 23 August. He was reacting to complaints from Hungary and Slovakia that Ukrainian sanctions on the transit of Lukoil crude oil through their territory were affecting their supplies.
On Wednesday 21 August, the Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Péter Szijjártó, accused the...