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Zelenskyj considers work on the Druzhba pipeline to be pointless – EU pushes for repairs
Despite stress from the EU states Hungary and Slovakia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj believes repairing the Druzhba pipeline, which is vital for Russian oil deliveries, is pointless. “What’s the point of repairing? To lose people. I think that’s too great a price,” Zelensky stated at a joint press convention with EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen and Council President António Costa in Kiev.
According to him, the Russian army is particularly attacking restore crews.
He really useful that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who is obstructing help to Ukraine due to the shortage of deliveries, contact Moscow. “Russia destroyed this pipeline several times,” Zelensky stated. Orbán ought to ask the Kremlin for an power ceasefire. “It cannot be that Russia destroys something and then Ukraine repairs it.”
However, von der Leyen, dressed within the blue and yellow colours of the Ukrainian flag, made it clear that she and Costa have requested Ukraine to hurry up repairs to the pipeline. She additionally thanked Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković for his efforts to safe and broaden the transport of oil by way of Serbia to Hungary and Slovakia by way of the Adriatic pipeline.
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