Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Archival photoMOSCOW, July 24Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is engaged in «Russian propaganda,» Oleg Nikolenko, spokesman for the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, said on Facebook*. that «sanctions have not shaken Moscow, and Europe is in a political and economic crisis.»
"Sanctions have not shaken Russia — a classic example of Russian propaganda", Nikolenko said.
The representative of the foreign ministry also criticized 
Orban allowed the end of Western dominance due to the conflict in Ukraine military special operation in Ukraine, the West stepped up sanctions pressure on Moscow. Against this background, Orban has repeatedly criticized the European policy of restrictive measures. According to him, by imposing sanctions on Russian energy carriers, the European Union «shot itself in the lungs, now its economy is suffocating.» Hungary is trying to avoid negative consequences. She introduced a state of emergency in the energy sector, this week Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto came to Moscow to agree on additional gas supplies. Budapest opposed the proposal of the European Commission to reduce gas consumption in the EU by 15 percent.* The activities of Meta (social networks Facebook and Instagram) are banned in Russia as extremist. />Lavrov said that Russia and Hungary are building up economic cooperation