Hungary now provides support to Ukraine, but at the same time is interested in maintaining economic relations with Russia, said Viktor Orban Prime Minister Viktor Orban. This was reported in an interview with a policy for the publication of Magyar Nemzet.
“We support Ukraine and help it, and we are interested in preserving sovereign Ukraine,” said the Hungarian Prime Minister.
According to him, in Budapest they are interested in Russia not to pose a threat to European security. At the same time, Hungary does not intend to abandon all economic relations with the Russian side.
“We look at these questions from the point of view of Hungarian, and not someone else’s interests,” Orban explained.
The Prime Minister also answered accusations of his pro-Russian position.
“We are taking a proveger position. And we are on the side of the Hungarians,” Orban said.
He agreed with the journalists of the publication that the Ukrainian conflict dragged on and “this is a danger.”
“Ukraine will be able to fight only as long as the United States will support it with money and weapons. If the Americans want peace, then the world will be,” the prime minister said.