PM Viktor Orbán about Putin’s Ukrainian invasion: It’s not clear who attacked whom
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has triggered fresh controversy after suggesting that it is “not clear who attacked whom” in the war between Russia and Ukraine, a statement that shows a clear change from Hungary’s earlier official position on the conflict.
Turmoil made in Brussels
Speaking at a press conference following a European Union summit in Brussels, Orbán addressed journalists from pro-government media outlets and framed the meeting as less of a diplomatic gathering and more of a “war council”.
According to the prime minister, most EU leaders are now focused on how to defeat Russia militarily, while Hungary — alongside the Czech Republic and Slovakia — continues to argue for peace talks.
Viktor Orbán’s most striking remark came as he criticised proposals to seize frozen Russian assets and redirect them to support Ukraine. While arguing against such measures, he referred to Ukraine as a country subjected to violence, adding that it was “not entirely clear who attacked whom”.
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As 24.hu writes, the comment appeared to question a fact that the Hungarian government itself had previously acknowledged: that Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022.
Only two years ago, Orbán publicly stated that Russia was the aggressor and that Hungary shared the European Union’s common position on the matter. At the start of the war, the Hungarian government did not dispute Moscow’s responsibility, and Orbán himself referred to Russia’s attack on Ukraine as an act of aggression in April 2022.
He thinks the EU should leave Russia’s money alone
The prime minister devoted much of his briefing to the issue of frozen Russian financial assets, most of which are held in Belgium. Viktor Orbán argued that confiscating these funds would have amounted to a de facto declaration of war and warned that Russia would not have tolerated such a move without retaliation.
He praised the Belgian prime minister for helping to prevent what he described as a potentially disastrous legal and financial situation, claiming Belgium itself could have faced bankruptcy if Russia successfully sued over the seized assets.
Viktor Orbán also revealed that Hungary holds foreign currency reserves in Western Europe and suggested that, had Russian assets been confiscated, the Hungarian government would have immediately reviewed where to keep its own reserves.
He is against the new loan package
Turning to EU financial support for Ukraine, Orbán criticised the bloc’s decision to approve a EUR 90 billion loan package, calling it a “war loan”. He argued that Ukraine would be unable to repay the sum and that the burden would ultimately fall on European taxpayers. Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia are not part of the scheme, a point Orbán emphasised repeatedly.
According to the prime minister, the only scenario in which the loan might be repaid would be a Russian defeat followed by reparations. He warned that by approving the loan, the European Union has now committed itself openly to defeating Russia — a move he described as extremely serious and dangerous.
The Polish Foreign Minister was completely on the mark when he said Orban deserves The Order Of Lenin. He is 100% without a doubt Putin’s Hungarian stooge.
Yes, Dear Larry – and if the choice had been Orbán’s to make – millions of Ukrainian men would still be alive and or not crippled, not to mention tens of millions displaced from their country.
Someone please pin the Order of Patent Lunacy, with Gold leaves, on the Polish foreign minister…
Omg, orban soon will say that the revolution of 1956 was started by hungarian extremist who did not support the benevolent soviet government 😭
Meanwhile:
Mafia Putin At Work: Primary Belgian Targets and Tactics
The campaign is aimed at preventing Belgium from supporting the use of €185 billion in frozen Russian central bank assets held at the Brussels-based depository, Euroclear, to fund Ukraine’s war effort.
Valérie Urbain: The CEO of Euroclear has been a primary target of threats and has used private security since late 2024.
Bart De Wever: The Belgian Prime Minister was reportedly targeted after making public comments in late 2025 regarding the “eternal consequences” Moscow threatened if Russia’s funds were seized.
Intimidation Methods: Security officials describe the tactics as “deliberate targeting” meant to instill fear and pressure leaders into blocking an EU loan for Kyiv secured by these assets.
Let me get this straight. In February 2014 the “Little Green Men” (Wagner) invaded Luhansk and Donetsk Oblasts. Zhenya moved his family from Donetsk to Mariupol to escape the chaos. In 2022 the Russian Army invaded again and in March 2022 bombed Mariupol, Zhenya, his wife and his two young sons aged 9 and 4. They all died and Mariupol was reduced to rubble. This was Ukraine’s fault for starting the war. I see. How could I have missed it? Thanks Viktor, for clearing things up for me.
Russia invaded Ukraine, and it was 100% wrong to do that, but let’s not pretend it all happened in a vacuum. There are many important events preceding the 2022 attack going back to the early 1990s.
That aside, the only question that matters is what next.
Ukraine is not going to defeat Russia militarily alone, and if the “West” steps in, we’re going to have a global war, possibly nuclear. I don’t want a war, nuclear or conventional. I will not go fight nor will I accept loss of my quality of life as well as freedoms for the sake of Ukraine. Plus, what, send young European men to die, and be replaced by a bunch of bugubungas from Somalia, Nigeria, Syria, Afghanistan, etc.!?!? No, thanks. I hope every single European soldier refuses to go if we-know-who really do realize their wet dream of a war with Russia.
“I will not go fight nor will I accept loss of my quality of life as well as freedoms for the sake of Ukraine.”
Thank God that you, and too many millions of Westerners, will refuse to go to this war, for that is, ultimately, what will keep this situation from turning into a tragedy of truly international proportions.
One note, however, Herr Steiner – this war is not ‘for the sake of Ukraine’, but, rather for the Rothschild Banking Famiiy, the companies wrapped around it – Blackrock, Vanguard, & State-Street, along with the Western Governmental bureaucracies that service them, to get a hold of Russian assets, just as they had in the 1990s, and, as well, to obliterate any form of Russian strength that might compete with them globally.
This is a war to obliterate Russia, and it was planned and provoked for a very long time.
That this war has been, as it is being sold, as the defence of The Ukraine against Russian Aggression is because this coalition, that has controlled The West for more than a century, knows how much many of Westerners would love to believe the diabolic emnity they have been fed for many decades.
They, this vile coalition of effete parasites, understand how desperately Westerners want to believe in our own supremacy, and, therefor, by implication, the inferiority of all others.
They can work with that.
They can get us to support anything – not matter how craven and vile, by telling us that someone has done something wrong, and, if we are only willing to make sacrifices, we can make it a better world.
The packaging is different, as are some of the project supervisors, but, this is still Operation Barbarossa.