Orban announced the creation of a NATO military mission in Ukraine

NATO countries will create their own military mission in Ukraine, but Hungary will not participate in it. The Prime Minister of this state, Viktor Orban, spoke about this told on radio Kossuth.

“NATO will create its own mission in Ukraine, but Hungary will not participate in it and provide its troops, weapons or financial resources for this purpose“, announced the head of the Hungarian government.

The Prime Minister recalled that he had concluded a corresponding agreement with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, and his successor, Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte, confirmed his intention to comply with this agreement. At the same time, he added that Budapest “fulfilled its minimum program.”

In addition, Orban stated that Western countries are “approaching the front line” and are already directly involved in the conflict.

Let us recall that on June 18, Orban supported Rutte’s candidacy for the post of NATO Secretary General after he promised not to interfere with Budapest’s refusal to provide military assistance to Ukraine.

On June 4, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that French instructors are already working in Ukraine, and Russia has every reason to believe this. According to him, they are a legitimate target for the Russian Armed Forces.

The Russian leader’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, emphasized that any instructors training the Ukrainian military do not have immunity.

Columnist for the American newspaper The Washington Post Lee Hockstader said that French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to send military instructors to Ukraine could lead to retaliatory measures from the Russian Federation. In his opinion, Russia can strike at French instructors in order to humiliate Macron, who has become one of the most aggressive leaders in the West towards the Russian Federation.

The Russian Foreign Ministry has repeatedly emphasized that any cargo with weapons supplied by Western countries to Ukraine will be a legitimate target for the Russian Aerospace Forces. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated that arms supplies would not stop, but would prolong the conflict in Ukraine, and called the position of Western countries “harmful” and “counterproductive.”