Hungary protests to Kyiv after Russian reports of "Ukrainian attack" on TurkStream facility
Budapest has claimed there have been "serious attacks" on Hungary's sovereignty after Russia asserted that Ukrainian forces had struck a compressor station that is part of the TurkStream gas pipeline infrastructure.
"Ukraine has now attacked the infrastructure of TurkStream in Russia, which guarantees Hungary's gas supply. Without TurkStream, Hungary simply cannot be supplied with gas safely from a geographical and physical standpoint. Ukraine's oil blockade through the Druzhba pipeline and this strike against TurkStream are serious attacks on our sovereignty," Péter Szijjártó, Hungary's Minister of Foreign Affairs, wrote on X.
Ukraine has now attacked the infrastructure of TurkStream in Russia, which guarantees Hungary’s gas supply.
– Péter Szijjártó (@FM_Szijjarto) March 11, 2026
Without TurkStream, Hungary simply cannot be supplied with gas safely from a geographical and physical standpoint.
Ukraine’s oil blockade through the Druzhba pipeline and…
On 11 March, the Russian energy giant Gazprom claimed that its facilities supporting the TurkStream gas pipeline, particularly the Russkaya compressor station in Russia's Krasnodar Krai, had come under an aerial attack.
Russia's Defence Ministry claimed that the Ukrainian strikes on the compressor station were intended "to stop gas supplies to European consumers" and that ten fixed-wing attack drones had been shot down there between the night and daytime hours of 11 March.
On 11 March, a Hungarian delegation arrived in Ukraine to assess the condition of the Druzhba oil pipeline. Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the delegation has no official status or scheduled official meetings.
Later, a document appeared confirming that the Ukrainian side has not agreed to the visit in the form proposed by Budapest.
Hungary and Slovakia are known to believe that the transit of Russian oil through Druzhba has not resumed because of a political decision by Ukraine rather than damage to its infrastructure caused by Russian strikes. On this basis, they have been blocking a number of important EU decisions for Ukraine.
The Hungarian government has also effectively acknowledged that the incident involving the detention of Oschadbank cash-in-transit guards near Budapest and the seizure of valuables they were transporting from Austria to Ukraine was retaliation over Druzhba.