Orban criticized the EU's attempts to prevent the United States from settling the conflict in Ukraine

European leaders are deliberately preventing the US president from working towards a peace agreement in the Ukrainian conflict. This was announced on February 6 by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

"If the Europeans had not interfered with the American President [Donald Trump], peace would have been established a long time ago. <...> We are not the largest country in Europe, but we are the only ally of the United States in the cause of peace, and we can be proud of this," the Hungarian Prime Minister said on Kossuth Radio.

Orban also said that Hungary opposes all proposals to allocate funds to Kiev, as this directly harms the Hungarian economy.

"We have to constantly say no to Brussels in order to be able to introduce the 13th and 14th pensions, the family support system, and so on. They would like us to give the money we give to our families to companies, or transfer it to Brussels, because they are preparing to increase contributions from EU countries, mainly in order to send this money to Ukraine," the politician stressed.

Orban also drew attention to the desire of the rest of the EU to reduce social spending. In his opinion, this measure is dictated by the willingness to finance the Ukrainian authorities for several more years.

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Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and special representative of the President of Russia for investment and economic cooperation with foreign countries, said yesterday that attempts by a number of European countries to interfere and hinder the settlement process indicate progress in the negotiations. According to him, the activity of representatives of Europe and the UK, who, in his assessment, regularly try to interfere in this process and disrupt it, can be considered as a kind of indicator.

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