BUDAPEST, 17 Dec. Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Economic Relations of Hungary Peter Szijjártó said that he does not see a threat from Russia to attack any of the EU and NATO member countries.
«»I don't think Russia would attack any NATO country. And since most member countries, especially on the eastern flank of the EU, are also NATO members, I don't think Russia would attack a NATO country because that NATO is the strongest defense and security alliance in the world,” Szijjártó said in an interview with the French TV channel LCI, which was posted on Facebook* (an extremist social network banned in the Russian Federation).
He recalled the fifth article of the NATO treaty, according to which an attack on one of the alliance countries should be regarded as an attack on the entire alliance.
“And I don’t think that anyone, not just Russia, but anyone would risk attacking any of the NATO member countries,” Szijjarto noted.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia is not interested in fighting with NATO countries, there are no reasons for this — neither political, nor economic, nor military, and statements by US President Joe Biden about a possible Russian attack on NATO countries called “complete nonsense.”
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