Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban believes that the world has never been so close to the escalation of a local armed conflict into a full-scale world war.
Orban made this statement on Friday, March 10, during a weekly interview on Kossuth radio, commenting on the dispatch of the first group of Leopard tanks to Ukraine.
He recalled that a year ago the whole world hoped that the aggravation of the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine would not escalate into a full-scale war.
The war today is much tougher and tougher than before, – said the Hungarian prime minister.
According to him, both sides of the conflict have already lost 100 thousand people (Orban did not specify whether the wounded were included in his calculations).
Meanwhile, the war continues to gain momentum, the prime minister recalled:
Germany started by sending [Києву] helmets, and now he is sending tanks – and he is thinking about sending fighters as well.
Orban suggested that if one adheres to this logic of escalation, at some point the Ukrainian border may well be crossed by manpower – a group of allied countries of Kyiv.
We have never been so close to a local war escalating into a world war,” added the Hungarian authoritarian leader.
According to him, of all the European countries of the world, Ukraine really wants only two: Hungary and the Vatican. Outside of Europe, Turkey, China and most Arab countries adhere to the same position.
EU and NATO allies have consistently criticized the Orban government for being loyal to Russia. In January, Hungary refused to participate in the supply of weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, citing security concerns, while Orban himself last September called for the lifting of sanctions against Russia’s terrorist federation.
Source: Racurs
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