\u201cI hope and expect them to step up to the plate soon to help us end this bloodbath,\u201d he said. \u201cIf not, consequences should and will follow.\u201d<\/p>\n
Prior to the Kremlin\u2019s all-out assault on Ukraine in February 2022, the bloc as a whole imported 45 percent<\/a> of its natural gas and 27 percent of its crude oil from Russia.<\/p>\n Last year, that number\u00a0dropped to 19 percent<\/a>\u00a0for gas and\u00a03 percent<\/a>\u00a0for oil, after the European Commission banned imports by sea. In 2024, countries in the EU forked out \u20ac21.9 billion on Russian fossil fuels, accounting for about\u00a010 percent<\/a>\u00a0of Russia\u2019s total global export revenues.<\/p>\n But while most member countries have ended or drastically reduced their dependence since the outbreak of the war \u2014 in a bid to drain Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war chest \u2014 Hungary and Slovakia have ramped up theirs, cashing in on Russia\u2019s discounted exports.<\/p>\n Budapest \u201cincreased its Russian crude reliance from 61 percent pre-invasion to 86 percent in 2024,\u201d while Bratislava \u201cremained almost 100 percent dependent on supply from Moscow,\u201d\u00a0according to a report<\/a>\u00a0by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air.<\/p>\n Both countries have sought friendlier relations with the Kremlin and so far refused calls to find alternative energy sources.<\/p>\n Hungary imposed sanctions<\/a> last month on the Ukrainian military officer who was behind an attack on the Druzhba pipeline in Russia, which supplies\u00a0over half<\/a>\u00a0of Budapest\u2019s oil imports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI hope and expect them to step up to the plate soon to help us end this bloodbath,\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[32,35,1214,7159,2190,475,660,2597,5436,2661,15857,2343,48,332,2663,2558,182,657,49,333,771],"class_list":{"0":"post-428763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-energy","10":"tag-exports","11":"tag-fossil-fuels","12":"tag-hungary","13":"tag-imports","14":"tag-kremlin","15":"tag-military","16":"tag-natural-gas","17":"tag-oil","18":"tag-pipelines","19":"tag-research","20":"tag-rights","21":"tag-russia","22":"tag-sanctions","23":"tag-slovakia","24":"tag-social-media","25":"tag-ukraine","26":"tag-united-states","27":"tag-vladimir-putin","28":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115213759150119169","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}