Russian crude deliveries through the Druzhba pipeline resumed to Hungary and Slovakia on 28 August after a six-day interruption, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said. Flows are initially running in test mode and below normal volumes, according to officials and refinery operator MOL Plc, which had relied on inventories during the outage caused by a Ukrainian strike on the Unecha pumping station on 21 August. The week-long halt had threatened to tighten regional fuel supplies and potentially force Budapest and Bratislava to tap strategic reserves or increase imports via Croatia. MOL said crude has now reached its refineries in Százhalombatta and Bratislava, while Slovakia’s Economy Minister Denisa Sakova expressed hope that operations will remain stable if no further attacks occur. Hours before pipeline operations restarted, Kyiv said long-range drones hit two Russian refineries overnight: Afipsky in Krasnodar Krai and Kuibyshev in Samara Oblast, more than 800 kilometres from Ukrainian-held territory. Video footage showed large fires at both facilities. Russian authorities confirmed a blaze at Afipsky had been extinguished and reported intercepting 102 drones across seven regions, including 21 over Samara, where a fire was also contained. The strikes extend a month-long campaign targeting Russia’s energy infrastructure. Reuters calculations indicate drone and missile attacks have disrupted about 17 percent of the country’s refining capacity, prompting Moscow to ban gasoline exports in late July and heightening concerns over fuel availability inside Russia and in export-dependent Central European states.