Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has declared that his country would not support sending NATO troops to a war against Russia. This was in response to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte’s statement on Feb. 3 before Ukraine’s unicameral parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, that the so-called Coalition of the Willing would deploy troops to Ukraine right after a peace agreement with Russia was reached.
“It’s not just about what the NATO secretary general said, but also about written agreements between France and Great Britain” on sending troops to Ukraine, Orban told the Kossuth radio station.
“The Russians keep saying, ‘Don’t do it because Western troops will become a legitimate target if they enter Ukraine,’” Orban stressed. In his opinion, that would mean “that a European army, European soldiers, would fight Russians in Ukraine.”
