Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in a Facebook video on Wednesday that the government is working to evade another increase in energy prices.

The prime minister made his Facebook video during a break in a cabinet meeting dedicated to the matter, and said, "Brussels is planning to ban imports of Russian oil and gas to Hungary."

"The Russia-Ukraine war and the ill-advised sanctions have made European energy prices skyrocket. In addition, we have the war situation in the Middle East; the future of industry in European countries is in jeopardy," he added.

In a situation like this, "introducing further restrictions and banning cheap Russian energy is a great irresponsibility," he said, adding that there was no reason for "shutting ourselves off from the possibility of a cheap energy supply".

"The truth is that Brussels bureaucrats have only one reason: they want to continue the war in Ukraine," PM Orbán said.

"We put on the brakes in Brussels earlier this week, but the Brussels bureaucrats have not given up and presented new plans. Today we will devise the appropriate counter-measures," the prime minister said.