View of St. Stephen's Basilica in Budapest. File photoPRAGUE, Mar 26 Czech Defense Minister Yana Chernokhova canceled her trip to Budapest for a meeting with colleagues from the Visegrad Four (Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia — V4) due to Hungary's position on sanctions against Russia . Chernokhova told reporters about this. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, on the eve of the parliamentary elections to be held in early April, had previously stated that his country did not support new sanctions against Russia, in particular in the field of energy resources, since, according to him, they would inflict Hungary more harm than her eastern partner.
"I will not go to the meeting of the heads of the Ministry of Defense of the V4 group in Budapest (March 30-31). I have always advocated contacts in the V4 group, and I am very upset that now cheap Russian oil is more important for Hungarian politicians than Ukrainian blood", Chernokhova said.
decide for themselves whether to go to Budapest. In addition, Hungary has refused to send weapons to the Ukrainian government and prohibits the transfer of weapons to Ukraine through its territory. >In the Czech Republic, «Russian» shops were turned into «Ukrainian» Russia launched a military operation on February 24 to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. In response, Western countries announced large-scale sanctions against Moscow, primarily in the banking sector and the supply of high-tech products. Some brands have announced the termination of work in the country. The Kremlin called these measures an economic war, the likes of which have not yet been. The authorities stressed their readiness for such a development of events and assured that they would continue to fulfill social obligations. The Bank of Russia is taking measures to stabilize the situation on the foreign exchange market. The authorities also announced the transfer of payments for gas supplies to unfriendly countries into rubles. In addition, the government has prepared a plan to counter restrictive measures, which includes about a hundred initiatives. The volume of its funding will be about a trillion rubles.