Ukrainian Foreign Ministry: we were beginning to worry because it's been too long since Viktor Orbán spoke about stopping arms deliveries

"We don't know how it works in Hungary, but Ukraine doesn't trade either its territory or its sovereignty," Oleg Nikolenko, spokesman for the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry wrote on his Facebook page, Népszava spotted.

Oleg Nikolenko's post was a reaction to the interview the Hungarian Prime Minister gave to Tucker Carlson. In the interview, among others, Orbán said that if any Western country were to send troops to the battlefield in Ukraine, it would be guaranteed to lead to the outbreak of World War III. According to Orbán the Ukrainians do not stand a chance in the war on their own. The war would end if there was no more money and equipment coming from the West, especially from the United States. He therefore believes that the best way to bring peace would be to stop Western arms supplies. He believes that the West should reach an agreement with Vladimir Putin on Ukraine's security, which should not include either the return of Crimea or Ukraine's accession to NATO.

"We were actually beginning to worry because it's been too long since Viktor Orbán last spoke about stopping arms shipments to Ukraine and he hasn’t even tried to legitimise Russia's aggression recently. We were beginning to doubt the Hungarian Prime Minister's otherwise consistent position," Kyiv's foreign affairs spokesman wrote on Facebook.

This is not the first time the Hungarian Prime Minister has said something to anger Kyiv. He had previously called Ukraine a no-man's land and a financially non-existent country. "Russia's goal is to turn Ukraine into an ungovernable wreck so that the West would have no claim to it. They have already succeeded, Ukraine is now like Afghanistan, a no man's land. But Russia will not allow NATO to enter Ukraine," Orbán told foreign journalists attending a media conference hosted by Mathias Corvinus Collegium earlier this year.