While Hungary and Slovakia are being cast as thorns in Kiev’s side, they are also key energy suppliers to Ukraine Hungary and Slovakia have warned they could cut off electricity and other energy supplies to Ukraine in response to Kiev halting the transit of Russian oil through the Druzhba pipeline. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Slovak leader Robert Fico have slammed the Ukrainian blockade as “political blackmail.” On Wednesday, the two EU countries halted diesel supplies to Kiev,