In his note, Orbán wrote that “simply earlier than the historic assembly between President Trump and [Russian President Vladimir] Putin in Alaska,” Ukraine carried out drone strikes on the Druzhba oil pipeline in Russian territory.
The pipeline, which was restored by Aug. 19, was hit once more two days later.
Notably, each strikes have been carried out by the Unmanned Methods Forces of Ukraine, led by Commander Robert Brovdi, who can be generally identified by his name signal “Madyar,” referring to his Hungarian ethnicity.
Brovdi announced his second strike on Telegram with the Hungarian battle cry, “Ruszkik haza!” The phrase means “Russians go residence” — a reference to the slogan of Hungarian freedom fighters who confronted the Soviet military in 1956.
Orbán — who has maintained shut ties with the Kremlin even after it launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 — didn’t take the message properly.
“Hungary helps Ukraine with electrical energy and petrol, in return they bomb pipeline that provide us. Very unfriendly transfer,” he wrote in his missive to Trump.
Since Budapest acquired a brief exemption from the European Union’s ban on Russian oil, it has elevated its purchases of crude through the overland pipeline community, making major profits from discounted crude.
Hungary has repeatedly threatened to veto any EU efforts to additional cut back its dependency on Russian power.
