Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó announced in Istanbul on Dec. 10, 2025, between 11:16 a.m. and 11:45 a.m. UTC that Hungary will sue the European Court of Justice over the EU's RePowerEU plan to end all Russian energy imports, calling it a 'legal fraud' and 'economically nonsensical,' according to an X post by zoltanspox shared in the past 29 minutes. Szijjártó spoke at the Organization of Turkic States energy ministerial, condemning the EU ambassadors' approval earlier that morning in Brussels of a plan to halt Russian LNG by end-2026 and pipeline gas by September 2027, as reported by NOELreports. He argued the ban replaces cheap, reliable energy with costlier, less secure alternatives and harms Hungary's interests. The minister highlighted EU leaders' praise for Ukrainian strikes on the Druzhba pipeline, which damaged infrastructure affecting Hungary and Slovakia rather than Russia, as well as the Nord Stream explosion and Black Sea tanker attacks, labeling them 'state-supported terrorism' that sets dangerous global precedents, per the X post. Szijjártó warned of ideological attacks on nuclear energy in Brussels despite its role in meeting rising demand safely, and praised energy partnerships with Turkic states amid Europe's policies threatening sovereignty and security. In a separate Ukraine-Russia development reported in the window, the Wall Street Journal detailed the SBU's 'Spider Web' operation, in which a Ukrainian couple, Artem and Kateryna Timofeev, built 150 drones in Russia, smuggled them via trucks from Chelyabinsk in late May 2025 for strikes on airfields, before fleeing to Kazakhstan, according to NOELreports.
