The European Union needs a new strategy for the war in Ukraine, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán believes

Viktor Orbán (Hungarian: Orbán Viktor) is the current prime minister of Hungary, and added that the sanctions against Moscow are not working, Reuters reported.

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"A new strategy is needed that is focused on conducting peace talks and making a good peace proposal, not on winning the war," Orbán said in a speech in Romania.

Re-elected in April for a fourth consecutive term, the politician stressed that Hungary should stay out of the war in neighboring Ukraine.

Orbán has previously said that Hungary does not want to support European embargo measures or restrictions on Russian gas imports because it would harm the Hungarian economy, BTA notes.

Orban: The EU shot itself in the chest with ill-conceived sanctions against Russia

In his speech today, he stated that 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 explained that this strategy has failed and European governments are collapsing "like a game of dominoes", energy prices have risen and now a new strategy is needed.

We got into a car with all four flat tires: it is absolutely clear that the war cannot be won this way, he declared to his supporters.

The Hungarian prime minister also said that Ukraine would never win the war this way, "simply because the Russian army has asymmetrical superiority."

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