Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said that EU leaders failed to protect people in EuropeBELGRADE, September 2.
/tass/. The armed conflict in Ukraine has led to a catastrophic weakening of the European Union (EU), and its leaders could not prevent it. This was stated on Friday by Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto, speaking at the Open Balkans summit in Belgrade.
According to him, the conflict in Ukraine, its "economic influence and the ruinous crisis of energy supply - all this has led to a catastrophic weakening of Europe and the European Union." "Sitting at this table, we must tell the truth, and the truth is that the leaders of the European Union failed to protect people in Europe from paying the bills of the war, for which they are not responsible at all," Szijjarto said.
The Hungarian Foreign Minister added that it is necessary to hold discussions on how to avoid the consequences of this conflict, "so that it does not become fatal for the continent." "It is obvious to everyone that the policy of expansion should be the most important for Europe today, because Europe needs the Western Balkans," Szijjarto said.
The Hungarian Foreign Minister recalled that "hundreds of millions of people are at risk of starvation." In this regard, Hungary is facing a "new level of aggression of migrants at its borders."
On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation in Ukraine in connection with the request of the leaders of the republics of Donbass for help. He stressed that Moscow's plans do not include the occupation of Ukrainian territories, and the goals are demilitarization and denazification of the country. The West, in response to Russia's decision, began gradually imposing numerous and large-scale sanctions against it. Along with this, Western states have begun to supply weapons and military equipment to Kiev for amounts estimated at this stage in the tens of billions of dollars.
