Zoltán Kovács, State Secretary for International Communications and Relations, said Hungary's stance on embargoes on Russia's oil and gas has not changed. “We do not support them,” Kovács said in a Facebook post, reacting to the German ZDF television channel’s reports on Hungary, Slovakia and Austria withdrawing their veto blocking sanctions on Russian crude oil imports into the European Union. Citing a high-ranking EU official, ZDF said that Germany’s announcement in support of the veto had tipped the balance, with all EU countries now in favour of stopping the imports of Russian crude oil, as a punitive measure in response to Russia’s attack on Ukraine.
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