Nationalist Orban said his government would not send Ukraine arms or sever economic relations with Moscow. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Landlocked Hungary is heavily reliant on Russian natural gas and crude oil imports, and Russian energy giant Rosatom is building a nuclear plant in the country based on a 2014 contract.
“Europe is drifting into the war in these very minutes, it is doing a dangerous balancing act,” he told his supporters in a speech. “Actually, they are in fact already indirectly at war with Russia.” German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said earlier this week Western nations had pledged 48 Leopard 2 tanks for Kyiv.
“A year ago, the West decided otherwise. When Russia launched an attack, the West did not isolate the conflict, but lifted it onto an all-European level. It could have treated it as a local regional war, or a military conflict between two Slavic nations as Hungary suggested,” Mr Orban said.“What happened is another argument against the Brussels super-state and in favour of strong nation states,” he added, before turning to the health of the Hungarian economy.
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