Hungary has agreed not to veto NATO support for Ukraine. But Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is refusing to provide funds or military personnel for any joint assistance effort.

Note: EU support for Ukraine not included in this agreement.

  • petrescatraian@libranet.de
    5·
    14 days ago

    I think it’s the better option, I guess…

    I mean, this wasn’t even asked so far afaik, and for a landlocked country this small there’s little it could do to help it, especially if it doesn’t really want that like now. It would be actually less beneficial for Hungary if Ukraine falls, but for the Putler simp in Budapest, this doesn’t really seem to be a problem.

    OTOH, how can the EU help Ukraine if its member states (including Hungary) don’t help?

  • njm1314@lemmy.world
    4·
    14 days ago

    Well that sounds fine, but I’m curious what their definition of help out is. Does that include traffic and transport through their borders?

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    3·
    15 days ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    BRUSSELS (AP) — Hungary agreed on Wednesday not to veto NATO support for Ukraine but Prime Minister Viktor Orbán insisted that his government would provide neither funds nor military personnel for any joint assistance effort.

    At a summit in Washington next month, U.S. President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts are expected to agree on a new system to provide more predictable, long-term security help and military training to Ukraine’s beleaguered armed forces.

    As an organization, the world’s biggest security alliance does not send weapons or ammunition to Ukraine and has no plans to put troops on the ground.

    Hungary’s stridently nationalist government has increasingly become a thorn in the side of NATO — and the European Union — by undermining their efforts to help Ukraine.

    Plans are afoot for NATO’s leaders to commit on July 9-11 to maintain the level of military support they have provided Ukraine since the invasion began.

    At their summit in Lithuania last year, Biden and his counterparts promised that they would “be in a position to extend an invitation to Ukraine to join the alliance when allies agree and conditions are met.” The consensus among members now is that it should not happen while war rages on.

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