Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said at the annual press conference in Budapest that he does not consider the Russian invasion of Ukraine a war.
Orban called the invasion of the Russian Federation a "military operation"
Using the terminology of Russian propaganda, Orban called Russia's invasion of Ukraine a "military operation."
There was no declaration of war between the two countries. When Russia declares war, then there will be war.
We will remind you that Russian propaganda calls the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine "SVO"— a "special military operation".
We should be glad that war was not declared, because then there will be a general mobilization in Russia. I don't wish this on anyone, Orban said.
Orban's attitude to the Russian Federation's war against Ukraine
Orbán held a meeting with Putin in Beijing in October. He became the first leader of an EU member state to do so after the international criminal court issued a warrant for Putin's arrest for war crimes in Ukraine.
Orbán also called the war a "military operation" during the meeting.
In November, Orban said that Ukraine would not be able to defeat Russia and called the EU's decision to support Ukraine after the Russian invasion "strategically wrong."
Last week, Orbán blocked a €50 billion EU bailout package for Ukraine, the only one of the 27 EU leaders to do so.
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