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Western countries that provide weapons and money to help Ukraine in its war with Russia have already become active participants in the conflict, the Hungarian Prime Minister said today, BTA reported.

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In an interview with the Hungarian state radio Viktor Orbán

Viktor Orbán (Hungarian: Orbán Viktor), the current prime minister of Hungary, said that Germany's decision on Wednesday to send 14 Leopard 2A6 tanks to Ukraine was emblematic of the growing role of Western countries in the war, which entered 12 -th month.

Instead of arming Ukraine, the West should seek a "ceasefire and peace talks," Orban said, without elaborating on what he believed those talks would mean for Ukraine's future territorial integrity.

Hungary has threatened to veto if the EU decides to introduce "nuclear" sanctions against Russia

"It all started with the Germans saying they were willing to send helmets because they wouldn't send lethal means into the war, as that would mean taking part in it.

That's where it started," Orbán said. "Now we're at the level of battle tanks, and they're already talking about airplanes."

Orban, who has refused to send weapons to neighboring Ukraine and blocked some efforts by the European Union to deliver aid packages to Kyiv, has consistently spoken out against EU sanctions against Moscow and portrayed countries helping Ukraine as being "on the side of the war," the agency notes.

Orban said today that Hungary's involvement in the war in Ukraine "is out of the question while I am prime minister", but he believes that it is too late for other countries in Europe.

"The rest are not only in danger, they've already been swept away," he said. you say what you want.

No matter what you say, you are at war," the Hungarian prime minister said.

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