By Ben Aris in Berlin Russian crude deliveries to Slovakia and Hungary were suspended on August 21 after a third attack on the Druzhba pipeline system in less than two weeks, officials confirmed. Flows are expected to remain offline for at least five days.

EADaily, August 24th, 2025. A video appeared on the Telegram channel "Politics of the Country", in which Vladimir Zelensky jokes about the APU strikes on the Druzhba oil pipeline. The reason for the comedian's comedian was the journalist's question — can Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban lift the veto from Kiev's support from the EU.

Russian oil supplies to Hungary and Slovakia could be suspended for at least five days after a Ukrainian strike on a facility in Russia, Hungarian and Slovakian officials said on Friday, in a widening of the fallout of Russia's war in Ukraine.