Ukraine’s acting president Volodymyr Zelenskyy yesterday threatened to assassinate Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban if he didn’t agree to the emergency EU loan for Kiev of a proposed €90 billion ($106 billion). He stated yesterday that If Orban failed to do so, “we will give the address of this person to our armed forces, to our guys, so that they call him and communicate with him in their own language.”
Hungary’s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto immediately responded on X: “This is beyond every limit. This is Ukraine. This is the kind of “culture” coming from Kyiv. And this is the man Brussels admires and the country they want to fast-track into the European Union.” He added: “No one can threaten Hungary or its Prime Minister. No one can blackmail us just because we refuse to pay the price of Ukraine’s war and refuse to accept higher energy prices because of Ukraine.”
Zelenskyy has been uncooperative for six weeks in re-opening the Druzhba pipeline and the previous day, Orban had made clear he would no longer tolerate Zelenskyy’s stalling. He stated on X that until Zelensky comes to his senses, “we will not support a single decision that is favourable to Ukraine.”
Orban publicized Zelensky’s death threat, and responded that the threats “are not about me. He is threatening Hungary.”
