Fireworks explode above River Danube as part of celebrations of the national holiday, in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó has said that the Russian Druzhba oil pipeline has resumed operations and expressed hope that Ukraine will no longer conduct new attacks on it.

Russian crude oil flows to Hungary and Slovakia via the Druzhba pipeline were halted on Monday, officials in Hungary and Slovakia said, with Budapest blaming a Ukrainian attack on a part of the network.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha neither confirmed nor denied the account of the latest attack but wrote on X that Hungary "can now send complaints and threats" to Moscow, not Kyiv.

Once suppressed under communist rule, the feast of St. Stephen is now the country’s defining civic and religious holiday.

Fireworks in celebration of Hungary's National Day are seen over Danube River in downtown Budapest, Hungary, on Aug. 20, 2025. (Photo by Attila Volgyi/Xinhua) Fireworks in celebration of Hungary's National Day are seen over Danube River in downtown Budapest,

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Hungary celebrated its national holiday on Wednesday with a record-breaking fireworks display over the River Danube in Budapest, billed as the largest in Europe. The 30-minute spectacle lit up the capital with more than 45,000 pyrotechnics launched from ...

Russian crude oil deliveries to Hungary and Slovakia through the Druzhba pipeline were suspended on Monday, officials in both countries said, after

"Not everyone may remember this, but in 1994, Ukraine already got assurances of territorial integrity from the U.S., Russia, and the U.K. In Budapest," Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.