After the decision not to use frozen Russian assets in the EU to benefit Ukraine for the time being, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated that the “immediate danger of war” has been averted.

Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski expressed his displeasure at Orbán’s closeness to Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin by symbolically awarding him the Lenin Order in a post on platform X, the highest civilian honor of the Soviet Union.

Orbán had previously boasted on X that the EU summit decision not to use frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine successfully averted the immediate danger of war.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó reacted strongly, accusing his Polish counterpart of provoking a war with Moscow, stating, “You are for a war between Europe and Russia. We will never agree.”

Earlier, EU heads of state and government agreed to provide interest-free loans amounting to 90 billion euros to war-stricken Ukraine. However, several countries, including Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, opposed using frozen Russian assets for this purpose, preferring to fund the aid from the EU budget.

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