But it exempted pipeline supplies — including those coming to Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic via the Druzhba pipeline — to give those countries time to find alternative supplies, with the understanding they would do so rapidly.
The situation so far…
The Czech Republic aims to end its imports from Moscow by 2025,
Good job, Czech.
while Slovakia too has begun upgrading its primary refinery to process more non-Russian crude.
Okay, could be doing much better, Slovakia. You’ll need more than that.
But Hungary chose to go the other way, instead ramping up oil imports via the pipeline by 50 percent compared to 2021.