Hungary blasts Poland for ‘dangerous’ Russia comments
The EU is not at war with Russia over Ukraine, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said in a rebuke to his Polish counterpart.
Orban made the comments on X after Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk delivered a staunchly pro-Ukraine speech at a security forum in Warsaw on Tuesday.
“Dear Donald Tusk, you may think that you are at war with Russia, but Hungary is not. Neither is the European Union. You are playing a dangerous game with the lives and security of millions of Europeans. This is very bad!” Orban wrote on X.
Tusk urged EU members to continue supporting Kiev by all means necessary. “We must recognize that this is our war,” Tusk said, according to TVP. “If we lose this war, the consequences will affect not only our generation, but also future generations – in Poland, throughout Europe, in the United States, everywhere in the world.”
Dear @donaldtusk, You may think that you are at war with Russia, but Hungary is not. Neither is the European Union. You are playing a dangerous game with the lives and security of millions of Europeans. This is very bad!
— Orbán Viktor (@PM_ViktorOrban) September 30, 2025
Unlike most EU countries, Hungary has refused to send weapons to Ukraine and has advocated for a diplomatic resolution of the conflict.
Orban vowed not to let “warmongering bureaucrats in Brussels” drag Hungary into an all-out war with Russia. Hungarian diplomats have repeatedly clashed with Ukrainian officials on social media.
In August, Budapest imposed sanctions on Ukraine’s top drone commander, Robert Brovdi, following repeated strikes on a Russian pipeline supplying oil to Hungary. On Monday, Hungary blocked access to 12 Ukrainian news websites in response to Kiev’s ban on two Hungarian media outlets.
