{"id":16303,"date":"2026-02-25T17:48:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/putin-clearly-considering-unpopular-measure-as-russia-faces-critical-issue\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T17:48:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:48:02","slug":"putin-clearly-considering-unpopular-measure-as-russia-faces-critical-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/putin-clearly-considering-unpopular-measure-as-russia-faces-critical-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin &#8216;clearly considering unpopular measure&#8217; &#8211; as Russia faces &#8216;critical&#8217; issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The Hungarian prime minister has accused Ukraine of planning to disrupt Hungary&rsquo;s energy system.<\/p>\n<p>Viktor Orban, one of Vladimir Putin&rsquo;s closest allies in Europe, ordered &zwnj;the deployment of soldiers to safeguard critical infrastructure in a move that will only deepen tensions with Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>His comments come after an outage along the Druzhba pipeline that carries Russian crude oil &#8203;to Hungary and Slovakia (more in 12.40pm post).<\/p>\n<p>Both blamed Ukraine, while Kyiv said it was caused by a Russian drone strike. <\/p>\n<p>Orban claimed the shutdown was for &ldquo;political, not technical, reasons&rdquo; and &zwnj;said intelligence reports show possible further disruption to Hungary&rsquo;s energy system.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I see that Ukraine is preparing further actions to disrupt the &zwnj;operation of the Hungarian energy system,&rdquo; Orban said online.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>&ldquo;Therefore, I have ordered the reinforcement of protection for critical energy infrastructure.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This means that we will deploy soldiers and equipment necessary to repel attacks &#8288;near key energy facilities.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><ncpost-content data-type=\"BILDE\" data-src=\"https:\/\/liveblog.digitalimages.sky\/lc-images-sky\/lcimg-2efe4045-2526-4e53-86aa-b6f42b1990e2.jpeg\" data-priority=\"10\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"676\" data-crops='[{\"url\":\"https:\/\/liveblog.digitalimages.sky\/lc-images-sky\/lcimg-2efe4045-2526-4e53-86aa-b6f42b1990e2.jpeg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":676},{\"url\":\"https:\/\/liveblog.digitalimages.sky\/lc-images-sky\/lcimg-b7049885-6fca-4535-b62e-c369045e31cd.jpeg\",\"width\":640,\"height\":422}]' data-caption=\"Viktor Orban&nbsp;is considered one of Putin's closest allies in Europe.\" data-source=\"Pic: Associated Press\" data-url><\/ncpost-content><\/p>\n<p>Hungary and Slovakia have maintained &#8203;ties with Moscow throughout the war and even clashed heads with EU partners over their military support of Ukraine. <\/p>\n<p>On Monday Hungary even stood by a veto on EU sanctions for Russia and a huge loan for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Orban has long maintained a close relationship with Vladimir Putin, too.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/migrant-acquitted-in-first-trial-over-us-border-military-zones\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">Migrant acquitted in first trial over US border military zones<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>The pair have met several times during the duration of the war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub><\/sub><\/p>\n<div>Putin &lsquo;clearly considering unpopular measure&rsquo; &ndash; as Russia faces &lsquo;critical&rsquo; issue<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hungarian prime minister has accused Ukraine of planning to disrupt Hungary&rsquo;s energy system. Viktor Orban, one of Vladimir Putin&rsquo;s closest allies in Europe, ordered &zwnj;the deployment of soldiers to safeguard critical infrastructure in a move that will only deepen tensions with Kyiv. His comments come after an outage along the Druzhba pipeline that carries&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/putin-clearly-considering-unpopular-measure-as-russia-faces-critical-issue\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Putin &#8216;clearly considering unpopular measure&#8217; &#8211; as Russia faces &#8216;critical&#8217; issue&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}