The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine caused the ambassador of Hungary in Kyiv Istvan Ijarto for a “outright conversation” after the statements of the prime minister of Hungary Viktor Orban. This was announced on Facebook by the official representative of the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine Oleg Nikolenko.
“The next dismissive statement of Viktor Orban to Ukraine. Such statements are categorically unacceptable. Budapest continues the course for the conscious destruction of the Hungarian -Ukrainian relations, significantly undermining the possibility of conducting further dialogue between two neighboring countries,” said Nikolenko.
January 26, Viktor Orban, at a meeting with reporters, spoke about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, reported by The American Conservative, whose representative was present at the meeting. Hungarian Prime Minister said that Russian President Vladimir Putin cannot afford to lose war, because in 2024 he will participate in the presidential election.
Orban believes that Russia also cannot allow NATO to “establish its presence” in Ukraine, so Putin’s goal is to turn the country into “uncontrollable ruins” so that the West cannot imagine it as its “prize”. “Now this is Afghanistan. Nobody land,” the journalist of The American Conservation quotes Orbana.
Hungary – one of the few countries of the European Union, which did not join the supply of weapons to Ukraine, repeatedly proposed to exclude some Russians from the sanctions lists of the European Union.