KYIV: Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry condemned what it described as “ultimatums and blackmail” by the governments of Hungary and Slovakia on Saturday, after they threatened to stop electricity supplies to Ukraine unless Kyiv restarts flows of Russian oil. Shipments of Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia have been cut off since January 27, when Kyiv says a Russian drone strike hit pipeline equipment in Western Ukraine. Slovakia and Hungary say Ukraine is to blame for the prolonged outage.

Russian oil supplies to Hungary over the Druzhba oil pipeline via Ukraine were halted since early February

Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto says Hungary 'will not give in to this blackmail' after oil flows from Ukraine halted.