BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Ukraine’s decision to halt the transit of oil from Russia’s Lukoil threatens the long-term security of supplies to Slovakia and Hungary, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told a news conference on Friday.

Slovakia and Hungary said on Wednesday they have stopped receiving oil from Lukoil after Ukraine imposed a ban on the transit of the company’s oil last month.

“We have been able to stabilize the situation with temporary solutions, but even these will not be sufficient in the near future,” Szijjarto said.

“The Ukrainian authorities showed readiness to find a solution to the situation, but these efforts have since waned,” he added.

Despite the war, Russia continues to supply natural gas and oil to landlocked Hungary and Slovakia via Ukraine, through the southern extension of the Druzhba pipeline.

Ukraine’s ban will not affect other Russian oil exporters whose oil is still allowed to be transported via Ukraine, Slovakian oil transporter Transpetrol said on Thursday.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called Lukoil’s disrupted oil transit through Ukraine a “crisis” for buyers, but said there was little room for talks with Ukrainian transit companies because the decision was political in nature.

(Reporting by Boldizsar Gyori; Editing by Alan Charlish and Jason Neely)