Defense Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky said Hungary is “the only European Union member to demand an immediate ceasefire and peace negotiations”.
Speaking on the sidelines of a meeting of EU defense ministers in Toledo, Minister Szalay-Bobrovniczky said the EU was “putting an enormous pressure on Hungary … to grant its approval to spending additional hundreds of millions of euros on weapons (to Ukraine)”. “Hungary supports peace and stability at all levels and at every forum,” the minister said. He insisted that there was “no rapid military solution” to the war, but “EU countries would not change their position to continue fighting with weapons.” Minister Szalay-Bobrovniczky called Ukraine’s keeping Hungary’s OTP bank on a list of war sponsors “unacceptable” and said “as long as it stays like that, Hungary will not have further negotiations” concerning the proposed financial framework to Ukraine.