The EU mission to assess the condition of the Druzhba oil pipeline has failed — Politico

The EU mission to assess the condition of the damaged section of the Druzhba oil pipeline in Ukraine has failed. This is reported by Politico.

A team of engineers from the EU was forced to wait in Kiev for permission to visit a facility located about four hours away from the city. In addition, Hungary and Slovakia, in a letter reviewed by Politico, "expressed disagreement" with the fact that the mission did not include representatives of their countries, the newspaper writes.

Brussels hoped that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban would be persuaded and he would remove the veto on the allocation of a loan of 90 billion euros to Kiev. They planned to give Orban "what he could present as a victory" — a mission to inspect the Druzhba pipeline, but it "turned out to be a failure." Hopes were not fulfilled The EU also hopes that colleagues, especially German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, will put pressure on the prime Minister to force him to change his position.

Earlier, the speaker of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine said that the Ukrainian side does not have information about the EU mission, and the SBU is dealing with issues of admission to strategic facilities, the publication reports "Время.иа ".

As reported by EADaily, the EU mission will check the technical condition of the Druzhba oil pipeline in Ukraine. This was reported by Radio Liberty."❶❷.

It was noted that European engineers are in Kiev and representative office On March 19, the EU will organize opportunities to assess the condition of the pipeline. According to the EC official, the mission will visit the pipeline "as soon as possible", before the meeting of EU leaders on Thursday to unblock a loan for Ukraine of 90 billion euros.

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