Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban denounced on Tuesday “hostile and aggressive” statements from Ukraine.
kyiv has decided to interrupt the transit of Russian gas to Central Europe.
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Ukraine: almost three years of war
The rag is burning between Budapest and kyiv. Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Tuesday denounced statements “hostile and aggressive of Ukraine, which decided to interrupt the transit of Russian gas to Central Europe, judging them “unacceptable“.
“The way the Ukrainians refused to resolve this issue in a negotiated manner is simply unacceptable“, the esteemed Viktor Orban.”Aggressive and hostile statements are coming from kyiv, and this is not the way to resolve these issues.”added the nationalist leader. “The changes taking place in the world work against kyiv and weaken its position. If she remains aggressive and hostile, she will lose“, warned Victor Orban. “We will eventually get angry and take countermeasures“, he added, without saying which ones.
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With the return of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States, his position “pro-peace“became the “courant dominant” in the Western world, said the Hungarian leader, who has repeatedly called for peace talks between kyiv and Moscow and refused to send military aid to Ukraine. Mr. Orban once again said he was hostile to Ukraine’s membership in NATO, insisting that it “will never enjoy unanimous support” within the alliance.
On the front, Russian forces are only a handful of kilometers from Pokrovsk, occupying the southern and eastern flanks of this key city for the logistics of the Ukrainian army and also for the coal industry. Its fall could open the way to the large Ukrainian city of Dnipro, in the region of the same name, neighboring that of Donetsk. If Russian forces enter the Dnipro region, it would be a first since the start of the Russian assault on Ukraine. They are only six kilometers from its administrative border.
