Source: How Hungary and Slovakia might retaliate against Ukraine for sanctioning Lukoil | European Pravda
Kyiv has expanded sanctions against the Russian company Lukoil. While previously Ukrainian sanctions against this company only affected financial operations, a transit ban has recently been added.
This decision has angered Hungary and Slovakia. There have even been threats to stop energy and fuel supplies to Ukraine and to block the European Union’s approval of new payments to Kyiv.
Ukraine’s main goal is to reduce the revenues of the aggressor country. After all, all the money the Kremlin receives as profit is invested in the war.
This step by Ukraine complements attacks on oil refineries, oil storage facilities and export terminals.
Operational data from the Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) shows that Russians are still receiving nearly €300 million a day from oil sales and slightly less from oil product sales. Depriving Russia of these revenues is one of Ukraine’s key tasks.
However, these sanctions also have a downside. This step immediately affected those EU countries that remain dependent on pipeline supplies of Russian oil – Hungary and Slovakia.
According to Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó, the new Ukrainian sanctions have led to a suspension of oil transit, which “fundamentally threatens the energy supply security of Hungary and Slovakia.”
基辅扩大了对俄罗斯卢克石油公司的制裁。虽然此前乌克兰对该公司的制裁仅影响其财务运营，但最近又增加了过境禁令。 这一决定激怒了匈牙利和斯洛伐克。甚至两国威胁要停止向乌克兰供应能源和燃料，并阻止欧盟批准向基辅支付新款项。 乌克兰的主要目标是减少侵略国的收入。毕竟，克里姆林宫获得的所有利润都投入了战争。 乌克兰的这一举措是对炼油厂、石油储存设施和出口码头的攻击的补充。 能源和清洁空气研究中心 (CREA) 的运营数据显示，俄罗斯人每天仍从石油销售中获得近 3 亿欧元的收入，而从石油产品销售中获得的收入略少。剥夺俄罗斯的这些收入是乌克兰的关键任务之一。 然而，这些制裁也有不利的一面。这一举措立即影响了那些仍然依赖俄罗斯石油管道供应的欧盟国家——匈牙利和斯洛伐克。 匈牙利外长西雅尔托表示，乌克兰新制裁导致石油运输暂停，“从根本上威胁匈牙利和斯洛伐克的能源供应安全”。
