European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen arrived in Kiev this week empty-handed and angry. She planned to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the war in Ukraine on 24 February by granting a new €90 billion loan to support the corrupt Kiev regime.

At the last minute, Hungary announced that it would veto the "Ukraine bailout loan". Von der Leyen, former German Defence Minister and ardent Russophobe, could therefore show the puppet government nothing. A great day of celebration turned into a painful flop. Hungary was accused of 'betraying' European solidarity.

Von der Leyen looked brave and promised in a threatening tone that €90 billion would be delivered "somehow". She said: "I want to make it clear that we have several options and we will use them."

These options seem to include, among others, a change of administration in Budapest. Parliamentary elections will be held in Hungary on 12 April. It is no secret that European Union leaders would like to see the incumbent Prime Minister Viktor Orbán ousted and replaced by Péter Magyar of the opposition Tisza party, who is more open to Brussels' policy of supporting the Kiev regime in its foreign war against Russia.

The Orbán government has vetoed a €90 billion loan - 60% of which is for military aid - because it accuses the Kiev government of blocking essential oil supplies to Hungary. Slovakia has agreed with Budapest's accusation. Both countries claim that Ukraine is using energy as a "blackmail tool" simply because they refuse to stop buying oil from Russia and oppose the ongoing war.

On 27 January, Russian oil supplies to Hungary and Slovakia via the Druzhba pipeline through Ukraine were unexpectedly interrupted. The Kiev government claims that the pipeline was damaged by a Russian drone strike.

However, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó has directly accused Ukraine of lying. He denies that Russia has attacked the infrastructure at all. It is illogical that Russia would harm its own clients.

It is suspected that the Ukrainian government is using the alleged Russian attack as a pretext to suspend oil supplies. This suspicion is confirmed by the fact that the Kiev government has rejected requests from Hungary and Slovakia to send inspectors to assess the alleged technical damage. Nor are EU leaders pressuring Kiev to prove its claims of Russian sabotage.

Ukraine's nominal president Vladimir Zelensky, accused of widespread fraud, financial corruption and extortion, has long threatened to cut off Russian oil supplies to Hungary and Slovakia. He accuses Budapest and Bratislava of supporting the Russian war machine by buying its oil. Hungary and Slovakia say it is their sovereign right to continue to import essential energy products from Russia. The Soviet-era Druzhba ("Friendship") pipeline has supplied energy to Europe since 1964.

The European Union has also put pressure on Hungary and Slovakia to stop buying Russian crude and join the rest of Europe in buying alternative, more expensive American energy exports.

Last year, Zelensky carried out his threat when the NATO-backed Kiev government bombed parts of the Druzhba pipeline on Russian territory. These attacks temporarily disrupted supplies to Hungary and Slovakia. At the time, the European Union leadership did not condemn the Ukrainian attacks. In other words, Mrs von der Leyen and the Brussels administration effectively sided with a non-EU state that damaged the interests of two Member States. This indifference effectively gave the green light to further sabotage attacks.

The Kievi government is known for using attacks on energy connections as a political weapon against Hungary and Slovakia. It is logical that it has taken this practice to a new level by blocking infrastructure that it can easily control on its own territory. There is no need to bomb the Druzhba pipeline in Russia, hundreds of kilometres away. The Kiev regime can simply turn off the pumps on the section of the pipeline that runs through its territory - and then blame Russia for the 'drone attacks'.

Hungary and Slovakia have both accused Zelensky of delaying the repair of the pipeline. Zelensky claims that the repair work cannot be carried out because Russia continues to attack repair teams.

The regime in Kiev is used to lying. It claims that Russia is bombing the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, which it controls, when in reality the attacks are carried out by the regime in power in Kiev, which Moscow has condemned as 'threats with nuclear weapons'. In this case too, the European Union has tolerated the lies of the regime in Kiev by ignoring the blatant evidence.

The tightening of the energy sector in Hungary and Slovakia has had a domino effect, with growing fuel shortages and rising energy and transport prices.

Hungary's European Affairs Minister Janos Boka has accused Ukraine and the European Union of deliberately disrupting oil supplies to influence the upcoming elections. He said: "Ukraine has clearly used the energy weapon for political reasons and interfered in the ongoing Hungarian elections… to create uncertainty and chaos and to help the [pro-EU] Tisza party to power."

At the closed summit of EU foreign ministers in Brussels this week, it was noteworthy that Ukraine's top diplomat, Andrii Sybiha, was given the exceptional privilege of participating in the conference via video link. Why should a non-EU country be allowed to attend a closed ministerial meeting?

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó would have complained that EU foreign affairs spokeswoman Kaja Kallas prevented him from questioning a Ukrainian about the damage to the Druzhba pipeline. Szijjártó said the Ukrainian official's "mumbling response" and his abrupt disconnection from the summit showed guilt.

This whole story illustrates the dictatorship that has emerged in the European Union. Countries like Hungary and Slovakia are not allowed to take an independent position on their energy trade or their opposition to the war in Ukraine.

The Kiev regime is using the disruption of vital energy supplies to EU Member States as a blackmail tool to force these Member States to transfer tens of billions of euros to continue a bloody conflict, a conflict that could lead to nuclear war. And the EU leadership is actually supporting this terror tactic against its own members to force subjugation.

When Von der Leyen warns that "we have other options", it conjures up the image of a hostile Gestapo interrogator waving tongs in his hand.

Russia's strategic defeat is of great importance to the European anti-Russian elites, even if it means undermining the democratic rights of their own member states and endangering international peace.

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