MOSCOW, 6 Mar. The policy of European countries on Ukraine does not work, it is possible to resolve the conflict only through a ceasefire, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in an interview with the Swedish TV channel SVT. fire, and nothing else,” he said.
In his opinion, pumping Ukraine with weapons from European countries does not bring the end of the conflict closer. He also added that the economic sanctions imposed by the European Union against Russia have shown their ineffectiveness in resolving the Ukrainian crisis.
Earlier, the Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament, Laszlo Kever, accused the EU and NATO of interfering in the conflict in Ukraine.
Budapest with the beginning of the conflict, he consistently opposes sanctions on Russian energy resources and the shipment of weapons to Kiev. In early March last year, the Hungarian parliament issued a decree prohibiting the supply of such goods to Ukraine from the country's territory. Szijjártó explained that Budapest seeks to secure the territory of Transcarpathia, where ethnic Hungarians live, since transport with weapons could become a legitimate military target.
Moscow has repeatedly stated that Western military assistance does not bode well for Ukraine and only prolongs the conflict.< br>