Hungary stops supplying gas to Ukraine ‘for technical reasons’

Hungary’s gas pipeline network operator FGSZ has indefinitely suspended gas supply to neighbouring Ukraine for technical reasons, a move branded “unexpected and unexplained” by Ukraine state-owned gas firm Naftogaz. In a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI, the state-run FGSZ said that supply to Ukraine had been stopped “indefinitely from 1600 GMT Thursday”. The company said the move was to service an increase in demand.

System users have notified us that starting on the gas day of September 26, demand for imports will grow significantly.

Alexei Miller, head of Russian gas giant Gazprom, and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban

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