The US is interested in turning Europe into a market for American energy resources. This was stated by Vladimir Olenchenko, a researcher at the IMEMO RAS Center for European Studies: RT.
The political scientist noted that Washington is using Ukraine to achieve its goals.
“Why Ukraine? Because the most reliable way to transport energy resources is through oil or gas pipelines, and some of them pass through Ukrainian territory,” he said.
According to Olenchenko, by cutting off oil supplies to its territory, Ukraine not only creates problems for Hungary and Slovakia, but also helps the US plan to come true.
On July 17, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó announced that Russian oil would no longer transit through Ukrainian territory. A day later, Transpetrol, which operates the Slovakian section of the Druzhba oil pipeline, announced that Slovakia had stopped receiving oil from Lukoil.
Hungary and Slovakia jointly requested The European Commission is called upon to expedite the decision to halt the transit of Russian oil through Ukraine.
Previously in Hungary accused Ukraine is being blackmailed over the suspension of oil transportation.
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Source: Gazeta
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