{"id":644078,"date":"2025-12-20T10:52:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T10:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/644078\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T10:52:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T10:52:13","slug":"orban-says-unsure-who-started-russia-ukraine-war-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/644078\/","title":{"rendered":"Orb\u00e1n says unsure who started Russia-Ukraine war \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orb\u00e1n was speaking to reporters after the European Council summit, where EU leaders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-deal-frozen-russian-assets-ukraine-budget-war-ukraine-funds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agreed<\/a> to jointly borrow \u20ac90 billion to send financial aid to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Hungary, Slovakia and Czechia chose not to participate in the program to fund Kyiv, cementing their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/hungary-anti-ukraine-bloc-czechia-slovakia-viktor-orban-andrej-babis-robert-fico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine-skeptic alliance<\/a>\u00a0and delivering another blow to the EU\u2019s unity after leaders failed to reach an agreement on using more than \u20ac200 billion in frozen Russian state assets to help Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Orb\u00e1n also <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/panyiszabolcs\/status\/2001229628837384507?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">revealed<\/a> before Thursday\u2019s EU summit that Russian President Vladimir Putin had warned the Hungarian leader that Moscow would take countermeasures if the EU tapped Russian assets to help Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>According to Orb\u00e1n, Putin told him there will be \u201ca strong response using all the instruments of international law, and they will take into account the position of each individual member state of the union.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we Hungarians have protected ourselves,\u201d Orb\u00e1n said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orb\u00e1n was speaking to reporters after the European Council summit, where EU leaders agreed to jointly borrow \u20ac90&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[15856,473,7057,7058,12336,474,18421,7558,2190,332,2558,657,1781,333,2601,771,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-644078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-bart-de-wever","9":"tag-defense","10":"tag-defense-budgets","11":"tag-european-defense","12":"tag-european-defense-policy","13":"tag-finance","14":"tag-finance-and-banking","15":"tag-financial-services","16":"tag-hungary","17":"tag-russia","18":"tag-slovakia","19":"tag-ukraine","20":"tag-viktor-orban","21":"tag-vladimir-putin","22":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","23":"tag-war","24":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115751521161790872","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}