Sweden’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Maria Malmer Stenergard, criticised comments made by Budapest that it will block financial assistance for Kyiv until transit of Russian oil resumes through a damaged pipeline connecting Hungary to Russia via Ukraine. She called the decision “illogical”.
“I'm very frustrated with this, and it's not logical, because it was Russia that bombed this pipeline,” she said on Euronews’ interview programme 12 Minutes With. “So I think that their frustration should be directed towards the Kremlin and not towards Ukraine or the EU.”
