EU leaders unwilling to admit Ukraine's failure, says Hungarian FM

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has said that the European Union’s current leaders are reluctant to acknowledge the failure of their policy on Ukraine and change it because they are afraid of responsibility.

He made the remarks in an interview with Belarus’ ONT television channel during his visit to Minsk on May 29, which was aired on June 2, according to TASS.

"I don’t see any chance for Brussels to change its political approach unless anything that may exert external pressure on the decision-makers in Brussels happens. Why don’t the current leaders or at least most of them want to acknowledge that what they have been doing until today is a complete failure? Because they want to evade responsibility. Because the failure of Brussels’ policy on the war in Ukraine is not a philosophical narrative but a fact," he stressed.

He slammed the statements by EU and NATO leaders as utterly dangerous as they lead to the escalation of the conflict in Ukraine and may trigger a direct confrontation with Russia. "Statements on the potential deployment of European troops to Ukraine, on the potential use of nuclear weapons, on the potential obligatory military draft system in Europe, embracing men and women - these are terrifying statements. None of us would want to see their consequences - either a nuclear war or a third world war. No one would like to experience this," Szijjarto stressed.

According to the top Hungarian diplomat, no one threatens the European Union or NATO. "If there is no military threat to us, then why do we think this is our war? It is complicated to think for others, but I can say that it is frightening to hear statements from Washington, Brussels, Paris, and Berlin," he added.