Hungary And Ukraine Butt Heads Over A New Natural Gas Deal

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has summoned Ukraine's ambassador over what he said was Ukraine's attempts to block Hungary's new long-term gas supply deal with Russia, which was signed on September 27. Szijjarto said in a statement posted on his Facebook page on September 28 that this amounted to a "serious violation of Hungary's sovereignty" after Kyiv criticized Budapest over the signing of a new 15-year natural gas supply deal with Russia's state-controlled energy giant Gazprom. The agreement was signed by Gazprom and Hungarian energy…