The Hungarian government signed an agreement with Gazprom to increase the volume of gas delivered by the Russian state company, the maximum level being increased to 5.8 million cubic meters, more than double the import in August, the Minister of Foreign Affairs announced on Wednesday. Peter Szijjarto, quoted by the EFE agency, according to Agerpres.

“The government has decided to buy more gas”, informed the head of the Hungarian Diplomacy on his Facebook account.

“An agreement was reached (with Gazprom) for the months of September and October,” he added.

In addition, the two sides have agreed that this additional amount of gas will come from the south, through the TurkStream gas pipeline, which crosses Turkey and Serbia.

Thus, Hungary, which in August imported 2.6 million cubic meters of gas from Russia, will be able to import, starting from September 2, up to 5.8 million cubic meters.

Szijjarto signaled that it would be “impossible” to guarantee his country’s energy supply without Russian gas.