Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said again on Tuesday that Ukraine cannot win a war against Russia “with the current numbers” and that Ukrainian soldiers on the battlefield have no chance of victory, Bloomberg reported.

“Looking at the numbers, looking at the environment, looking at the fact that NATO is not ready to send troops [în Ucraina]It is obvious that there is no victory for the poor Ukrainians on the battlefield,” he said in an interview with Bloomberg.

Orbán, who is in Qatar for an economic forum organized by the Gulf state, also expressed hope that Donald Trump will win a new term as US president, and Hungary’s prime minister said that only his re-election can stop the war that has developed shouted Vladimir Putin. last year.

Orban spoke about the need to re-elect Trump as US president at the beginning of May, when the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was organized in Budapest, where hundreds of right-wing representatives from Europe and the US gathered.

Hungary acted as a mediator in the peace between Russia and Ukraine

Despite Viktor Orbán’s comments about Trump’s re-election as the only solution to ending the war in Ukraine, his Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó said last Friday that Budapest was ready to provide a platform for peace talks between Russia and Ukraine.

“At the beginning of this war I conveyed to both sides, [ministrului rus de Externe] Sergey Lavrov and [șeful cancelariei președintelui ucrainean Volodimir Zelenski] Andrii Yermak, that Hungary is ready to offer a place for peace talks at any time. This proposal is still relevant,” Siyarto said in an interview with Russian state media from Kazakhstan.

“When Russia and Ukraine express their readiness, we are ready to create all the necessary conditions for this,” he also said regarding peace talks.

He made the comments just days after Budapest blocked another tranche of military aid to Ukraine from the EU’s European Peace Fund, demanding “guarantees” that the funds would be used in other areas such as the Balkans and North Africa.

As for Viktor Orbán, he has stated several times since the beginning of the Russian invasion that Ukraine cannot win the war, despite the successes of Kyiv’s forces on the battlefield.

In July of last year, at a press conference in Vienna, together with Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehhammer, he condemned NATO’s strategy of supplying weapons to Ukraine. “It is impossible to win this war in this form,” the Hungarian Prime Minister said.

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