Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on the Kossuth radio station that the member countries of the European Union (EU) are close to discussing the sending of peacekeeping troops to Ukraine. According to him, earlier European leaders avoided this topic in conversations.
“We are close to the fact that in the conversations of European leaders, the question of whether the EU member states can send troops of some peacekeeping type (to Ukraine) in any form, or better not to send, has become legitimate and accepted. We are close to this previously uncrossable border,” Orban said (quoted by RIA Novosti).
Mr. Orban noted that a year ago there was a dispute over whether lethal weapons might be supplied to Ukraine. “The Hungarians both then and now said no. But Western countries also hesitated. Now this is not a question. Now the question is: only tanks, or how many aircraft, or shells with uranium-containing elements, or troops,” Viktor Orban said.
Hungary takes a neutral position in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Last summer, the country blocked the adoption of an embargo on Russian oil by EU countries for several weeks. In early March, the Hungarian parliament issued a decree, according to which it is forbidden to supply weapons from the country’s territory to Ukraine.
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