{"id":478,"date":"2026-04-23T07:23:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/?p=478"},"modified":"2026-04-23T07:23:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:23:02","slug":"russian-oil-to-slovakia-resumes-flowing-through-pipeline-that-crosses-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/?p=478","title":{"rendered":"Russian oil to Slovakia resumes flowing through pipeline that crosses Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

A general view of a pumping station at the end of the Druzhba oil pipeline in the east German refinery PCK in Schwedt, Jan. 10, 2007. (AP Photo\/Sven Kaestner, File)<\/small><\/p>\n

2026-04-23T06:39:40Z<\/p>\n

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) \u2014 The flow of Russian oil to Slovakia through the Druzhba pipeline that crosses Ukraine has resumed, Slovak Economy Minister Denisa Sakov\u00e1 said Thursday.<\/p>\n

Hungary and Slovakia have been locked in an escalating feud<\/a><\/span> with Ukraine since Russian oil deliveries to Hungary and Slovakia were halted in January.<\/p>\n

Unlike most of the rest of the EU, Hungary and Slovakia still depend on Russia for their energy needs.<\/p>\n

The two countries have accused Ukraine of failing to repair a damaged pipeline<\/a><\/span>. Hungary has blocked a massive EU loan to war-wracked Ukraine while Slovakia wouldn\u2019t endorse new sanctions against Russia until the supplies resumed.<\/p>\n

The flow resumed after three months at 2 a.m. Thursday.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A general view of a pumping station at the end of the Druzhba oil pipeline in the east German refinery PCK in Schwedt, Jan. 10, 2007. (AP Photo\/Sven Kaestner, File) 2026-04-23T06:39:40Z BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) \u2014 The flow of Russian oil to Slovakia through the Druzhba pipeline that crosses Ukraine has resumed, Slovak Economy Minister Denisa… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}