The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Economic Relations of Hungary called the use of long-range American weapons for strikes against the Russian Federation extremely dangerous
BUDAPEST, June 3. /tass/. Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Economic Relations Peter Szijjarto considers the use of long-range American weapons to attack Russia extremely dangerous, since this clearly leads to an escalation of the conflict in Ukraine. In his opinion, Russia will respond even more strongly to attacks with American weapons.
"What will be the consequences of this?" - he said at a meeting with Hungarian citizens in the city of Kaposvar (Shomod region), timed to coincide with the upcoming elections to the European Parliament. "The only question is whether they will shoot back as much or more," the MTI news agency quoted him as saying.
"So," the minister concluded, "the war train is rushing here, which has already departed from the penultimate station. The next stop is the final one, and the question is whether he will get there or someone will press the emergency brake so that the train stops on an empty track."
The Foreign Minister believes that there is still an opportunity to stop an extremely dangerous development of events, which could turn into a military clash between Western countries and Russia. "The emergency brake will be used on June 9, and European voters will be able to press it," Szijjarto hopes. He called on citizens to support the candidates of the ruling FIDESZ - Hungarian Civil Union party in the European Parliament elections, which stands for a peaceful settlement of the Ukrainian conflict and against arms supplies to Kiev.
Washington's decisions and Moscow's reaction
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken confirmed on May 31 that President Joe Biden had agreed to American weapons strikes on Russian territory. As Blinken claimed, we are talking only about the regions of Russia near Kharkov. At the same time, he did not rule out that the range of attacks by American weapons on the territory of the Russian Federation will increase. The Cabinet of Ministers of Germany stated that German weapons can be used "to protect against attacks" by Russia in the Kharkiv region. However, there is currently no unity among Western countries on the issue of restrictions on the use of their weapons in Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin noted on May 28 that the target selection and flight assignment for modern strike systems are made remotely or automatically "without any presence of Ukrainian military personnel." This is done by those who produce and supply such systems to Ukraine, Putin stressed. He warned that NATO countries should "be aware of what they are playing with." Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, said on May 31 that the long-range weapons supplied to Ukraine were already "directly controlled by NATO military personnel" and such actions could be a reason for retaliatory strikes.
As The Wall Street Journal reported on May 31, citing its sources, the US administration geographically limited the use of American weapons against Russia so that the conflict in Ukraine would not escalate into a direct clash between Washington and Moscow. According to this information, the United States approved the use of GMLRS missiles, HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems and artillery systems "at command posts, weapons depots and other facilities on Russian territory that are used to conduct an offensive" in the Kharkiv direction. At the same time, the American authorities banned "the use of longer-range surface-to-surface missiles ATACMS [for strikes] on Russian territory," the publication said.
