Orbán was talking to reporters after the European Council summit, the place EU leaders agreed to collectively borrow €90 billion to ship monetary support to Ukraine.
Hungary, Slovakia and Czechia selected to not take part in this system to fund Kyiv, cementing their Ukraine-skeptic alliance and delivering one other blow to the EU’s unity after leaders failed to achieve an settlement on utilizing greater than €200 billion in frozen Russian state belongings to assist Ukraine.
Orbán additionally revealed earlier than Thursday’s EU summit that Russian President Vladimir Putin had warned the Hungarian chief that Moscow would take countermeasures if the EU tapped Russian belongings to assist Ukraine.
In keeping with Orbán, Putin advised him there will likely be “a robust response utilizing all of the devices of worldwide legislation, and they’re going to take into consideration the place of every particular person member state of the union.”
“So we Hungarians have protected ourselves,” Orbán stated.
