Hungarian government ‘not to give in to pressure’ on financing weapon deliveries to Ukraine
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The Hungarian government expects “great pressure” concerning a proposal to finance additional weapon deliveries to Ukraine at an informal meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Toledo on Thursday, but it will “not give in before its conditions are met”, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said.
The foreign ministry quoted Szijjártó as saying before leaving for Spain that Josep Borrell, high representative of the EU for foreign affairs and security, had requested to meet him one on one or joined by Dmytro Kuleba, the Ukrainian foreign minister, to discuss Hungary’s approval to “sending further tens of billions of euros to Ukraine”.
“Naturally, we will not give in to the pressure today, either. Until we are not provided a detailed and clear account of what they have spent on some 50-70 billion euros sent to Ukraine so far and as long as OTP bank is not removed from Ukraine’s so-called sponsors of war list approving financing weapons or anything else for Ukraine is out of the question,” Szijjártó said.
He said “asking Hungary to send taxpayers’ money to Ukraine while keeping the largest Hungarian bank on the list of war sponsors … is nonsensical”.
Hungary helps to finance the Russian war machine against Ukraine by buying billions of dollars worth of Russian oil and gas and at the same time acts to cut off EU aid to Ukraine to defend itself at no cost to Hungary. Fidesz puppets of Putin are supporting Russian aggression. Shame.