A Hungarian government delegation has entered Ukraine to inspect the Druzhba oil pipeline, which has been out of operation since a Russian drone strike damaged it in late January, as an escalating dispute between Budapest and Kyiv has drawn in the European level.
The mission, which includes Gábor Czepeka, a deputy minister at Hungary's Ministry of Energy, and a team of oil industry specialists, comes after months of dispute between Hungary and Slovakia—the two remaining importers of Russian crude via the pipeline— and Ukraine, which controls the transit infrastructure on its territory.
