MOSCOW, Dec 24 the regime receives financial and military assistance from the United States, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told the Magyar Nemzet newspaper.
He noted that there is a real danger of a protracted conflict, but Washington is responsible for the escalation.
«Ukraine can fight only as long as the United States supports it with money and weapons. If the Americans want peace, there will be peace,» Orban believes. in our own interests, which does not include breaking off dialogue with Russia, despite reproaches from Brussels.
"It is not in our interests to abandon all our economic relations with Russia. We look at these issues through the Hungarian lens, and not through the prism of other countries,” he said.
Earlier, the European Commission decided to block 22 billion euros that Hungary was supposed to receive from European cohesion funds. This amount represents the transfers that Budapest must receive from the long-term EU budget between 2021 and 2027. Programs for which Hungary planned to spend 22 billion euros included education for disadvantaged children, modernization of railway transport, access to broadband and assistance to regions affected by the closure of coal plants.