Hungary summons Ukrainian envoy

Hungarian Foreign Affairs Minister Péter Szíjjártó has summoned Ukraine’s ambassador over what he said was Kyiv’s attempts to block Budapest’s new long-term gas supply deal with Russia, which was signed on September 27. In a September 28 post on Facebook, Mr. Szíjjártó denounced Ukraine’s criticism of the new 15-year natural-gas supply deal with Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom as a “serious violation of Hungary’s sovereignty.” Executives of Hungarian energy group MVM signed the gas deal with Gazprom CEO Aleksei Miller on September 27 at the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Budapest.