The military will guard the gas pipeline along its entire length.
The Hungarian government will assign military personnel to guard the Hungarian section of the gas pipeline, where an alleged sabotage attempt took place on Serbian territory.
As reported by Index, European Truth writes, this was announced by Hungary's Minister of Foreign Affairs Peter Szijjarto.
Following a security meeting convened by Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Szijjarto published a video statement on his Facebook, summarizing the discussions.
He stated that as a result of the meeting, Orban ordered military protection for the Hungarian section of the "Turkish Stream."
According to him, the military will guard the gas pipeline along its entire length from the Serbian-Hungarian border to the Hungarian-Slovak border.
Szijjarto added that he had conversations with the energy ministers of Serbia, Turkey, and Russia, and they "agreed that the pipeline should be protected more carefully than ever."
Szijjarto also hinted that Ukraine might be involved in the alleged "sabotage"; official Kyiv categorically rejected the accusations.
Earlier, Serbia reported an attempted sabotage on the gas pipeline leading to Hungary: large packages with explosives and detonators were allegedly found nearby. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban subsequently convened the National Security Council.
It is worth noting that long before this, Hungary had strengthened the security of its energy infrastructure supposedly due to a "Ukrainian threat," while Serbia had deployed its army to protect the infrastructure that facilitates gas transit to Hungary.
The main rival of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the leader of the opposition "Tisza" party, Peter Madjar, sees the alleged disrupted sabotage on the gas pipeline in Serbia as a staged operation that may aim to disrupt the elections in Hungary.
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