00:00The European Commission has publicly urged both Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
00:05and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to immediately dial down their inflammatory rhetoric over the Druzba pipeline.
00:14In response to halt in oil supplies, Orban has vetoed a 90 billion euro loan to Ukraine.
00:21At the moment there is a lot of escalating rhetoric and inflammatory rhetoric.
00:27We believe that such rhetoric from all sides is neither helpful nor conducive to achieving the common goals we all
00:34have here.
00:36Specifically in relation to the comments made by President Zelenskyy,
00:41we are very clear as the European Commission that that type of language is not acceptable.
00:46There must not be threats against EU member states.
00:49Orban threatened to break the Ukrainian oil blockade by force.
00:52In turn, Zelenskyy, without naming Orban directly, suggested that he could provide the address of the person who blocks the
00:58aid to his soldiers to convince him to lift his veto.
01:01Budapest condemned this as a death threat.
01:03The row has caught Brussels in the middle.
01:05Our objective here is to get everyone to calm down a bit, dial down the rhetoric and deliver on the
01:13objectives I mentioned before,
01:15which are taking every possible step we can to put pressure on Russia, to end its war of aggression,
01:24to deliver on the loan for Ukraine, to ensure that our member states have energy security.
01:31On Friday, Hungary detained a bank cargo heading to Ukraine carrying 40 million dollars, 35 million euros and 90 kilo
01:38of gold in reserves,
01:39which Kyiv condemned as state terrorism.
01:42The Commission is considering financial assistance to accelerate the pipeline's repairs.
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