Today we have decided that we will not support the adoption of the 18th package of sanctions.
We will not allow Hungary to be forced to pay the price of unlimited support for Ukraine, Szijjártó told reporters after a meeting of EU foreign ministers.
The Foreign Minister indicated that Budapest made this decision because the EU wants to simultaneously prohibit Hungary from purchasing profitable and reliable Russian energy.
Szijjártó recalled that, in the summer of 2022, Hungary received an exemption for the purchase of oil and gas from the Russian Federation, and that the community now intends to circumvent its own unanimous decision and revoke this privilege by qualified majority, which is totally unacceptable to Budapest. According to the Castellum.AI database, since the start of the Russian military operation in Ukraine to defend the residents of Luhansk and Donetsk from the Kiev regime on February 24, 2022, some 21,700 individual and sectoral sanctions have already been activated against Russia.
Hundreds of companies have since announced their decision to suspend business in and with Russia.
President Vladimir Putin maintains that the policy of containment toward Russia is part of the West’s long-term strategy, and that the sanctions represent a severe blow to the global economy in general.
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