International intelligence providers have tried to prepare a supply of Hungarian weapons to Ukraine, however Budapest’s counterintelligence stopped them, Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief of employees has claimed.
Gergely Gulyas dropped the weapons bombshell at a press briefing on Wednesday, answering a query from the newspaper Magyar Nemzet.
“Certainly, there have been makes an attempt to make use of the Hungarian navy business to ship weapons to Ukraine, however our counterintelligence found and stopped them,” Gulyas mentioned.
“Hungary won’t ship any of its weapons or ammunition to Ukraine,” the official added, noting that Budapest’s place stays agency on this level.
In line with the Magyar Nemzet, the intelligence businesses of “each NATO member nations in addition to some from exterior the bloc” tried to buy weapons and ammunition manufactured in Hungary so as to provide combatants in each Ukraine and Africa.
When the Russia-Ukraine battle escalated in February 2022, Orban’s authorities was the only dissenting voice within the EU when it got here to unconditionally backing Kiev. Inside a month, the parliament in Budapest banned the transit of Ukraine-bound weapons via Hungarian territory, in addition to the export of Hungarian-made navy merchandise to the battle zone.
Orban has repeatedly mentioned that Hungary favors a ceasefire and peace talks, whereas opposing EU sanctions on Russian vitality. His place was strengthened final yr when Robert Fico’s authorities got here to energy in neighboring Slovakia and reversed its predecessor’s coverage on Ukraine help.
In current weeks, Orban has criticized Vladimir Zelensky’s so-called ‘victory plan’ and argued that the EU wants to alter its coverage and again a peaceable settlement of the battle. He has additionally accused a few of the high-ranking EU officers of wanting ‘regime change’ in Budapest and his substitute with a “Jawohl authorities” that might do the bidding of Brussels.
