{"id":514670,"date":"2026-04-05T18:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T18:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/514670\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T18:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T18:47:08","slug":"serbia-says-explosive-found-near-pipeline-to-hungary-days-before-crucial-election-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/514670\/","title":{"rendered":"Serbia says explosive found near pipeline to Hungary, days before crucial election \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hungary\u2019s Foreign Minister P\u00e9ter Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 said \u201csomeone tried to blow up the TurkStream pipeline,\u201d which conveys Russian natural gas into Hungary. \u201cUndermining the security of our energy supply is an attack on our sovereignty,\u201d Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 said <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FM_Szijjarto\/status\/2040767593334612003\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">in a post on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Those claims were quickly met with skepticism by Orb\u00e1n\u2019s main opponent, P\u00e9ter Magyar, who is looking to unseat the pro-Russia prime minister in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/viktor-orban-hungary-maverick-two-tailed-dog-party-combats-with-satire\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/viktor-orban-hungary-maverick-two-tailed-dog-party-combats-with-satire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">next Sunday&#8217;s vote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Orb\u00e1n has made energy security a central issue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/tensions-spike-sharply-final-stretch-of-hungarian-election\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">amid a tense campaign<\/a>, and Magyar has suggested that Vu\u010di\u0107\u2019s claim could be a false flag operation staged by two allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cViktor Orb\u00e1n wants to cross a new border with the help of Serbian and Russian [actors], due to the collapse of the support of Fidesz,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/peter.magyar.102\/posts\/m%C3%A1r-hetek-%C3%B3ta-t%C3%B6bb-helyr%C5%91l-kapjuk-a-jelz%C3%A9seket-hogy-a-kor%C3%A1bbi-bes%C3%BClt-hamis-z%C3%A1szl\/26984969791110780\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Magyar said in a Facebook post<\/a> Sunday afternoon. \u201cMany people have publicly indicated that something will \u2018accidentally\u2019 happen in Serbia at the gas pipeline at Easter, a week before the Hungarian elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Magyar said he had asked Orb\u00e1n to keep him informed about the situation and invite him to the defense council meeting. He also stressed that the incident should not be used to postpone next week\u2019s vote and \u201cprevent millions of Hungarians from closing the most corrupt two decades in the history of our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Viktor Orb\u00e1n and his propaganda use this provocation for campaign purposes, it will be an open admission that this is a pre-planned false flag operation,\u201d Magyar added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hungary\u2019s Foreign Minister P\u00e9ter Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 said \u201csomeone tried to blow up the TurkStream pipeline,\u201d which conveys Russian natural&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[163258,816,140,142,179818,461,98827,1344,147346,3712,12624,8731,22650,72384,165498,179819,2983,49,1293,179820,1348,3714,2986,50,2987,139847,78088,154,155,1351,6861,224,51,47,52,48,157,86732,159,636,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-514670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-aleksandar-vucic","9":"tag-borders","10":"tag-defense","11":"tag-drones","12":"tag-election-security","13":"tag-elections","14":"tag-elections-in-europe","15":"tag-energy","16":"tag-energy-dependency","17":"tag-energy-infrastructure","18":"tag-energy-markets","19":"tag-energy-security","20":"tag-energy-storage","21":"tag-energy-supply","22":"tag-energy-technology","23":"tag-eu-russia-relations","24":"tag-gas","25":"tag-headlines","26":"tag-history","27":"tag-hungarian-elections-2026","28":"tag-hungary","29":"tag-media","30":"tag-natural-gas","31":"tag-news","32":"tag-oil","33":"tag-peter-magyar","34":"tag-pipelines","35":"tag-russia","36":"tag-sanctions","37":"tag-security","38":"tag-serbia","39":"tag-social-media","40":"tag-top-news","41":"tag-top-stories","42":"tag-topnews","43":"tag-topstories","44":"tag-ukraine","45":"tag-viktor-orban","46":"tag-vladimir-putin","47":"tag-war","48":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}