Hungary committed to peace
Hungary is and will remain committed to peace when it comes to the war in Ukraine, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office said on Thursday.
The biggest danger is that the conflict will escalate, Gergely Gulyás told a regular government press briefing, adding that avoiding a world war was in everyone’s interest.
Hungary has condemned Russia’s aggression from the start and has provided financial and humanitarian support to Ukraine, welcoming refugees without an upper limit, Gulyás said.
Hungary’s position is only unique in the sense that it does not send weapons to Ukraine, Gulyas said, noting that this could only be done via the country’s Transcarpathia region. But Transcarpathia has so far not been involved in the war, “and it is our interest — also because of the Hungarian community living there — that this remain the case”, he said.
Gulyás noted Hungary’s opposition to sanctions, particularly those on energy, arguing that they were “hurting us more than they are Russia”.
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Source: MTI
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What Gulyas really means is that he does no want to upset his Russian paymasters
Where Mr. Gulyás and our Politicians get this “the sanctions are hurting us more than Russia” from is beyond me. Have never seen anything remotely compelling to back up this statement. Russian media? Telegram? I hear differently from my Russian friends – and they are up to the chest in biased media.
A good run factual down (not sound bites): https://www.bruegel.org/policy-brief/how-have-sanctions-impacted-russia