Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban called the results of the meeting of European leaders in London "dangerous" because they decided to continue the war in Ukraine and insist that Ukraine itself do the same.
„European leaders decided in London that they want to continue the war instead of choosing peace. They decided that Ukraine should continue the war. This is bad, dangerous and wrong. Hungary remains on the side of peace“, Orban wrote in H.
The Hungarian prime minister was not invited to the summit on Sunday in London, where the continuation of military aid to Kiev was discussed. Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said that Hungary did not intend to go there, as only supporters of continuing hostilities were planned to meet there. According to him, Hungary, on the contrary, supports the negotiations that have begun between Russia and the United States, which should lead to a peaceful settlement of the Ukrainian conflict.
The meeting in London was attended by the leaders of Germany, Denmark, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Finland, France, the Czech Republic, and Sweden, as well as the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Council Antonio Costa, and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Volodymyr Zelensky.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said after the meeting that European countries intend to develop plans to provide military supplies to Ukraine even after the end of the conflict. In turn, von der Leyen proposed to continue providing military aid to Ukraine in order to turn it into a "steel porcupine that no enemy will be able to crush".