The flag of Hungary. File photoMOSCOW, May 2Hungarian government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs commented on a report by the German TV channel ZDF that Hungary had withdrawn its veto on the EU embargo on Russian oil, and said that Budapest did not support sanctions against gas and oil from Russia. Previously, the ZDF TV channel, citing a senior EU diplomat, reported that Austria, Hungary and Slovakia had withdrawn their veto power on the EU embargo on Russian oil. «Hungary did not «withdraw its veto». sanctions against Russian oil and gas remains unchanged: we do not support them,» Kovacs wrote on Twitter. A number of Western countries have imposed new sanctions against Russia over Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the policy of containment and weakening of Russia is a long-term strategy of the West, and the sanctions dealt a serious blow to the entire world economy. According to him, the main goal of the West is to worsen the lives of millions of people. Putin also said that the United States and the European Union had effectively defaulted on their obligations to Russia, freezing its foreign exchange reserves. He added that current events draw a line under the global dominance of the West in both politics and economics. According to him, Russia is not going to isolate itself, it cannot be strictly isolated in the modern world.
