The Guardian, UK: Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has said it will support all EU sanctions against Russia and will not block any.
Speaking on the Ukraine-Hungary border, he said he supported peace efforts.
“Hungary made clear that we support all the sanctions, so we will block nothing, so what the prime ministers of the European Union are able to agree, we accept it and we support it,” he told reporters in English, according to Reuters.
Earlier on Saturday he said he agreed with Russia being blocked from the cross-border Swift payments system. Orbán has previously been considered Vladimir Putin’s closest ally among EU member states’ leaders.
Poland’s prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, said all sanctions should be up for discussion, ahead of a meeting with the German chancellor, Olaf Sholz.
“I came to Berlin to shake the conscience of Germany so that they would finally decide on truly harsh sanctions that will influence the Kremlin’s decisions,” Morawiecki said, as fighting took place on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.
“We need to shut down Nord Stream 1 and 2, we need to cut reliance on raw materials, cut off Russian financial institutions from capital markets, confiscate assets of oligarchs, close off Swift for Russia … all options should be on the table.”
