Hungary FM Shares Shocking News: Brussels Wants to Send Hungarian and Slovak Troops to Ukraine

Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto gave a report following the EU foreign ministers’ council meeting in Brussels. He said that the two main agenda items centered on the war in Ukraine. According to the minister, shocking facts emerged during the hours-long debate: EU chief negotiator Kaja Kallas expects Hungarian and Slovak troops to be sent to Ukraine, and suspicions were confirmed that Brussels, in collusion with Ukraine, is blocking oil supplies to Hungary.

Peter Szijjarto, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Photo: AFP

He added that Ukraine is putting Hungary’s energy security at risk and, by extension, attacking the country’s sovereignty. In light of this, the minister made it clear to everyone at the meeting that Hungary will not support any decision serving Ukrainian interests or important to Kyiv. Accordingly, the Hungarian side has consistently blocked the adoption of the 20th EU sanctions package against Russia and has refused to contribute to Ukraine’s 90-billion-euro war loan.

So neither the war loan, nor the 20th sanctions package will move forward as long as they play games with our energy supply,

– he added.

“I hear the preliminary reports here, and nothing was discussed except Hungary. But they should not pressure us—they should pressure the Ukrainians,” FM Szijjarto said.

Hungary is a member of the European Union, Ukraine is not. Yet Brussels sided with a non-EU member against EU member states — including Slovakia. This proves that what we have in Brussels is not an EU Commission, but a Ukraine Commission,

– the politician stressed.

He called the EU sanctions policy a complete failure and meaningless, saying it harms the European economy far more than Russia.

The sanctions policy is now like a stick figure trying to show off its muscles—obviously laughed at. The 20th sanctions package is equally pointless,

– he said.

He emphasized that the Hungarian government has never supported punitive measures contrary to the country’s core national interests, such as energy supply, and therefore has not implemented any such measures.

In the other cases, we said if Europeans want to harm themselves, that’s their problem. But now the Ukrainians have started to mess with us. Threatening our energy supply is an attack on our sovereignty, and we are obviously not willing to tolerate it quietly. Everyone needs to understand this,

– the foreign minister said.

Responding to journalists’ questions, FM Szijjarto condemned Ukraine’s “anti-Hungarian policy,” the endangerment of Hungary’s energy security, and the deprivation of the rights of the Transcarpathian minority. 

He underlined that Hungary retains the sovereign right to decide where and what type of energy it purchases, and the government is unwilling to import at higher cost or from less reliable sources.

He also noted that Russia’s oil exports to Hungary represent only 0.2 percent of Russia’s GDP, making it unlikely that Moscow funds the war in Ukraine from this source.

Cover photo: Peter Szijjarto, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Photo: AFP)