Hungary says Ukraine is turning from a buffer zone into a military zone

By supporting Ukraine, the West has turned it from a buffer zone between Russia and NATO into a military zone. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said this in a conversation with US journalist Tucker Carlson on 14 February.

He specified that Moscow accepted the inclusion of former Warsaw Pact Organization countries such as Hungary into NATO. Noting that the Russian side reminded that promises were made to the contrary and that this was unfair.

"In this concept, Ukraine was a buffer zone between NATO and Russia. And now <...> we have turned a buffer zone into a war zone. So it is no longer a buffer zone," he said in an interview published on the website of the American Journalist.

Orban on Jan. 20 compared the European Union (EU) to a man suffering from alcoholism because of its unwillingness to pursue peace in Ukraine, protect its borders from migrants and family values. In this regard, he called on the association to "sober up".