Invasion of Ukraine – Hungary sets its conditions for the maintenance of EU sanctions to Moscow

But Mr. Orban, who remained close to the Kremlin despite the war, has continued to blame these sanctions for the economic difficulties that his country is going through, while refusing to help Ukraine militarily. He also complains, like the Slovak leader Robert Fico, that Ukraine cut in early January the transit of Russian gas to Europe via its territory.

This judgment only marginally affects Hungary, which receives most of its imports of Russian gas via Turkstream, a pipeline passing under the Black Sea, but Budapest said “not to want to abandon” this road.