Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has once again claimed that Hungarians do not want to be in the same union as Ukrainians, arguing that the fate of Ukrainians is to live alongside Russia.
Orbán asserted that Hungarians do not want to be in the same European Union as Ukrainians and that he strongly agrees with that position.
"If you are in a federal system with someone, you share their fate, and Ukraine is a country with a very difficult fate. Why should we share it?" Orbán said in a broadcast on Kossuth Radio, a Hungarian public-broadcasting radio station.
Orbán added that Hungarians have their own fate, which is much easier than that of Ukrainians.
"We feel pity for them, we sympathise with them, they fight heroically, we should support them, but we do not want to share their destiny," he said.
Orbán claimed that the Ukrainian fate is shaped by living next to Russia and constantly being at war with the Russians.
He said he wants to free Hungary from any obligation to enter a federal system with Ukraine or to take part in fighting the Russians.
"If you are in a federal system with someone and they attack you, sooner or later you have to send soldiers, and we do not want to die for Ukraine," he added.
It was reported earlier that Hungary does not support the idea of granting Ukraine a reparations loan using funds generated by frozen Russian assets.
Bloomberg reported that German Chancellor Friedrich Merz had harshly criticised Orbán during an informal EU leaders' summit in Denmark for disrupting important discussions.
