BUDAPEST, Aug 13: Ahead of the Trump-Putin summit, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said that Russia has already won the war in Ukraine, and it is now up to the Western powers to acknowledge this truth, reports RT.
On Tuesday, the Hungarian premier had slammed EU over its statement on Ukraine, where the bloc pledged full support to Kyiv on all fronts, as well as told the US that President Volodymyr Zelensky’s presence at the summit was a must.
Orban refused to sign the EU statement and said that Europe was in no position to dictate terms to anyone, especially as no European leader was invited to the Alaska summit.
Speaking to the ‘Patriot’ YouTube channel, the Hungarian leader said he partly opposed the statement as it only made the EU look “ridiculous and pathetic.”
“When two leaders sit down to negotiate with each other, the Americans and the Russians … and you’re not invited there, you don’t rush for the phone, you don’t run around, you don’t shout in from the outside,” Orban stated. “If you are not at the negotiating table, you are on the menu.”
The Hungarian PM said that Moscow won the war long back, stating that Kyiv’s backers simply refused to admit the hard truth despite knowing it.
“We are talking now as if this were an open-ended war situation, but it is not. The Ukrainians have lost the war. Russia has won this war,” he stressed.
“The only question is when and under what circumstances will the West, who are behind the Ukrainians, admit that this has happened, and what will result from all this.”
Hungary has been one of the few EU nations to have maintained friendly ties with Russia, and since Orban became PM, has consistently maintained a policy of neutrality, though it has been much more Moscow aligned, refusing the country’s entry into the EU and slamming the bloc consistently over its attempts at militarisation.
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