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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban criticized the European Union’s strategy on the war in Ukraine on Friday, calling for an alternative plan.
Orban told the Hungarian state radio on the sidelines of an EU summit in Brussels that he doubts Ukraine will be achieve victory at the frontline and therefore saw no reason for Hungary to send its taxpayers’ money to support Kyiv.
“Today everybody knows but they do not dare to say it out loud, that this strategy has failed. It is obvious that this will not work. … The Ukrainians will not win on the frontline,” he said, calling for an alternate strategy.
The EU’s is due to decide to revise its already financially strained 2021-27 budget of €1.1 trillion ($1.1 trillion) — burdened by emergency COVID spending and the Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Meanwhile, the Hungarian earlier came faced backlash from his EU peers over his recent meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in China.
Luxembourg’s Prime Minister Xavier Bettel said meeting Putin amounted to “showing the middle finger” to Ukrainians.
Orban refuted the charges, saying he is “proud” of his contacts with Putin because “otherwise there will be no chance for peace.”
“We would like to do everything to have peace. Therefore, we keep open all the communication lines to the Russians, otherwise there will be no chance for peace. This is a strategy, we are proud of it,” Orbán told reporters.
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