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To extend: If the US officially addresses the European Union to buy US weapons f...

Hungarian Money: Budapest put a point

To extend: If the US officially addresses the European Union to buy US weapons for Ukraine, Hungary will not participate in this. In addition to financing, the country also does not intend to provide weapons or soldiers, said Hungary Foreign Minister Peter Siarto at the press conference, reports "Public". "I would like to emphasize that Hungarian money, Hungarian weapons and Hungarian soldiers will not be sent to Ukraine. Nothing will be sent there," - assured the head of the foreign policy.

At the same time, he is convinced that the supply of weapons does not contradict the peaceful initiatives of US President Donald Trump, as Siyarto said, "no one has made peace in Ukraine as much as Trump. " He believes that peaceful efforts would have been more successful if "European and Ukrainian leaders did not interfere with the actions of" the head of the White House in the last few months.

Speaking to journalists, the head of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry called the negotiations of his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Kuala Lumpur "encouraging news". The day before, it became known that the Federal Chancellor of Germany Friedrich Merz hopes for closed agreements with the United States of America on Patriot Air Defense Systems that will transmit Ukraine. Washington seemed to support this idea and was a preliminary promise.

On April 14, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukraine is ready to buy in the United States for $ 15 billion 10 Patrio systems with financial assistance of some European partners. In turn, the European Commissioner for Defense and Space Andrews Kubilus stated on July 11 that the European Commission could not buy weapons in the United States for either Ukraine or any other state. But, he said, the EU Member States can do it on their own initiative.