Relations between Ukraine and Hungary have soured once again after Robert Brovdi, the Ukrainian drone commander of Hungarian descent, struck the Druzhba pipeline several times this month. The latest attack on the Unecha pumping station on the pipeline in Russia’s Bryansk region choked off Russian oil supplies to Hungary for several days, until it was repaired this week. Budapest fears that the taps could be turned off again: in response, Hungary accused Ukraine of trying to drag it into the war, banned Brovdi from entering the country and threatened to cut vital electricity exports to Ukraine if the pipeline is hit once more. Kyiv’s reaction, it seems, is: ‘We will do it again.’

Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed the strikes publicly last weekend. Facing journalists in Kyiv on Ukraine’s Indepen

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