Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban reiterated that Ukraine “will not win on the battlefield”

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban once again stated that Ukraine will not be able to defeat Russia on the battlefield. The corresponding fragment of Orban’s speech was published on the social network X (formerly Twitter) by the official representative of the Hungarian government, Zoltan Kovacs.

In particular, Orban said that Russia’s aggression towards Ukraine is unacceptable, but Western countries, in his opinion, have chosen the wrong way to resolve this conflict.

Thus, according to Orban, the Russian-Ukrainian conflict from the very beginning should have been “localized” and “isolated”, and not “globalized”, as it happened in the end.

Also, the Hungarian Prime Minister said that the West’s strategy in this war was initially that Ukraine would fight and win on the battlefield, and Russia would lose, after which the leadership in Moscow would change with whom it would be possible to negotiate.

“That was the strategy. We finance, and Ukrainians fight and die. Where we are now, it is obvious that the Ukrainians will not win on the battlefield. There is no solution [to this conflict] on the front line. The Russians will not lose. There will be no political changes in Moscow. This is the reality,” Orban concluded.

• Viktor Orban is considered Vladimir Putin's closest ally in Europe. Already in July 2022, he announced the “failure of the West’s anti-Russian strategy” and called for negotiations between the United States and Russia to end the war in Ukraine.
• In late October, the Hungarian prime minister said Ukraine would not win on the battlefield, calling on the EU to change its war strategy because the current strategy, in Orbán's words, had "failed."
• Hungary often blocks EU financial assistance to Ukraine and also opposes Ukraine’s accession to the EU.