Orbán rejected requests to extend sanctions to the energy sector and to send weapons, arguing that such actions would not be in line with the national interest.Continue reading
In a video on Facebook, Viktor Orbán said Hungary’s approach to the war in Ukraine was, morally speaking, “as it should be”.
Meeting voters in Szentendre, north of Budapest, on Sunday, Orbán accused Democratic Coalition leader Ferenc Gyurcsány of “telling us that we’re an abysmal nation if we don’t send soldiers or weapons, and if we don’t participate in this war.”
After Ukrainian president Zelenskyy publicly criticized PM Orbán and the Orbán government for what he saw as its lack of support for Ukraine, unlike other EU countries, Gyurcsány accused PM Orbán of projecting Hungary abroad as a “cowardly, immoral nation.” According to the former PM’s interpretation, “Orbán says that the price of our lives is the fall. To live, we have to become sh **ty persons, he says. He does not even try to offer the nation another way. “
“Let’s be clear: we’re a great nation … We’re helping more than half a million people in need. We’re a great country acting, morally speaking, exactly as we should,” Orbán said. “But let no one ask us to … take part in a war that’s not our war.”
“We can see the suffering, but we mustn’t heap ruin on ourselves by sending our children into war we have nothing to do with …” the prime minister said.
Featured photo illustration by Zoltán Fischer/PM’s Press Office
