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PM Orbán bans drones in Hungarian county and deploys armed forces to shield energy sites from Ukrainian strike – updated
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has ordered the reinforcement of defences around Hungary’s critical energy infrastructure, he announced in a video posted to his Facebook page on Wednesday following a meeting of the defence council.
The prime minister stated that the defence council session, convened in response to Ukraine’s oil blockade, had just concluded. No oil has arrived in Hungary via the Druzhba pipeline since 27 January.
“The data make it clear that this unprecedented shutdown has not technical but political causes,” Orbán said. “The Ukrainian government is exerting pressure on Hungary and Slovakia through the oil blockade.”
Mr Orbán added that he had heard reports from the national security services, which indicated that Ukraine was preparing further actions to disrupt Hungary’s energy system.
“To counter this, I have ordered the strengthening of protections for critical energy infrastructure,” he said. “This means stationing troops around key energy facilities, along with the equipment needed to repel attacks. Police will patrol in greater numbers around designated power stations, substations, and control centres. In Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, I have imposed a ban on drone flights.”
“Hungary cannot be blackmailed,” Orbán declared.
UPDATE: Ukraine may further escalate tensions with Hungary, the defence minister says
The government has set up a Coordinating Operative Board to protect critical infrastructure because “according to information received, Ukraine has an interest in further escalating already existing tensions with Hungary,” Defence Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky said on current affairs channel M1 on Thursday.
The minister said that Ukraine had closed the tap on the Druzhba pipeline without technical reasons impeding delivery, “and it is acting as a blackmailing state holding Hungary under an oil blockade.”
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Orban must have consulted with Kremlin propaganda services for this display of hysteria. We have a little over seven weeks to go until the election. God only knows what other desperate propaganda stunts Orban will try. It really is demeaning for the government to resort to this kind of theatre. Orban is the circus clown.