The message on the website of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry says that the corresponding contract was signed on September 27 in Budapest.
“We consider this an exclusively political, economically unjustified decision taken to please the Kremlin and to the detriment of the national interests of Ukraine and Ukrainian-Hungarian relations,” the ministry said.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry also claims that this decision does not comply with the principles of the Treaty on the Foundations of Good Neighborliness and Cooperation between Ukraine and Hungary of December 6, 1991.
In addition, Kiev initiated the postponement of the meeting of the Joint Intergovernmental Ukrainian-Hungarian Commission, scheduled for September 29-30.
In Kiev, they said they would apply to the European Commission to assess the compliance of the gas agreement with European energy legislation.
At the end of August, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Siyarto, following a meeting with Gazprom head Alexei Miller, said that Moscow and Budapest had signed a new agreement on Russian gas supplies.