Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said: "We will recover from the war, we are at arm's length from peace."
Speaking in a year-end interview broadcast on public media, PM Orbán said the past three years had been "traumatic" with a war in the neighborhood "in which hundreds, sometimes thousands die daily, while the country is emptied, bombed, and its resources lost". He added that the impact of the war was "inescapable", pointing to soaring prices and ruined energy markets.
"We have lived in this for three years and now that it could be over it is like coming up from under water and you can breathe again after a long time," he said.