“Sanctions are not working” and several other claims are typical examples of Russian propaganda in Europe
The spokesman of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Oleg Nikolenko said that some statements of the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán are “an example of Russian propaganda”, quoted by BGNES.
“Sanctions didn’t shake Russia” is a classic example of Russian propaganda,” said the statement published on Facebook. In Bulgaria, this phrase was used by President Rumen Radev in the form “Sanctions don’t work.”
Nikolenko also disputes Orbán’s opinion that bringing modern weapons into Ukraine only increases the duration of the conflict. “Providing weapons to Ukraine saves Ukrainian lives,” he wrote.
Orban previously said that the EU’s anti-Russian sanctions do not contribute to resolving the situation in Ukraine and that the provision of NATO weapons to the Ukrainian side prolongs the conflict, as Russia is interested in excluding the possibility of an attack from Ukrainian territory.
According to Orban, the EU needs a new strategy for peace negotiations regarding the conflict in Ukraine, since the sanctions against Russia did not work, BGNES recalls. The aim of the EU’s new approach should be “to develop an effective peace proposal”. “We need a new strategy that should focus on peace negotiations and the formulation of a productive peace proposal,” he said.
The calculation of the West, that the sanctions will weaken Russia and harm it more than Europe, and the whole world will support the Europeans, has failed, the Hungarian Prime Minister also said.
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In a speech yesterday in the Romanian town of Baile Tusnad, which has a large Hungarian community, Orbán said the Western strategy is built on four pillars: the first is that Ukraine can win the war against Russia with NATO weapons; the second is that sanctions will weaken Russia and destabilize its leadership; and the others are that the sanctions will hurt Russia more than Europe, and that the world will unite in its support for Europe.
Orban said this strategy had failed and European governments were collapsing “like a game of dominoes”, energy prices had risen and a new strategy was now needed. “We have got into a car with all four flat tires: it is absolutely clear that the war cannot be won that way,” he declared.
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