"Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto warned the EU to u-turn on Russian oil or face 'terrible economic challenges' during the global energy crisis with the Iran war, as he arrived for talks with other ministers in Brussels on Monday. "I think the best move is what the Americans have made to lift the sanctions on oil deliveries," he began. "Regarding Russia, because if you look at the issue from European perspective, two major oil sources, the Arab world and Russia, are being blocked from Europe. And this means that Europe will suffer huge losses, huge, and will be faced with with with terrible economic challenges." Last week, the US said it was 'temporarily' lifting restrictions on other countries buying Russian oil amid the global energy crisis triggered by the Iran war. Russian special envoy Kirill Dmitriev said the US was "effectively acknowledging the obvious: without Russian oil, the global energy market cannot remain stable... Amid the growing energy crisis, further easing of restrictions on Russian energy sources appears increasingly inevitable." Hungary has already said it would take legal action against the bloc's phased-in ban on Russian pipeline gas and LNG - and accused Volodymyr Zelensky himself of lying about the state of the Druzhba pipeline, after Kiev cut supplies claiming a 'Russian strike'. "