Hungary says it is pushing to remove nine people from Western sanctions list over Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine . Prime Minister Viktor Orban does not really need a close friendship with Russia.
Ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin told this Channel 24. According to him, the West has a somewhat more serious game.
What is Viktor Orban's plan
Pavel Klimkin stressed that the pro-Russian statesman Viktor Orban really does not need or benefit from being a friend of the Russian oligarchs.
If he started this story, then he understands that he now needs to bargain with Brussels, to have arguments in order to “play” around the 10th package of sanctions, he stressed.
In his opinion, one of the reasons why In Budapest, such a “swing” began – the EU's desire to include the nuclear industry in the 10th package of sanctions.
“Hungary, of course, does not like this,” the Interior Ministry of Ukraine added on Eve Eve.
According to him, Hungary has many ties, including corrupt ones, too.“It seems to me that this is also one of the levers for repelling sanctions,” Klimkin emphasized.< /p>
He noted that they are talking primarily about the Russian nuclear sector.
Pavel Klimkin explained why Hungary is talking about imposing sanctions on Russians: watch the video
Key Question
Pavel Klimkin said that the West is still dependent on Russian nuclear production: not so much for fuel, but for enrichment. However, now there is a decrease in this dependence on real examples.
Someone said that Germany cannot refuse Russian coal, gas, oil. A year has passed and now there are zeros on imports,” he stressed.
In his opinion, this result is amazing, so we need to strive for more.
“Now we need to kill this drug dependence of the West on the Russian nuclear industry,” he stressed.
According to Klimkin, the game with sanctions is unfolding around this issue.
EU 10th sanctions package: mainstream
- Poland and Lithuania want the European Union to impose restrictions on Russia's nuclear sector within the new sanctions package. The EU is also calling for a ban on more propaganda media.
- Currently, there are about 1,300 individuals and 120 entities on the EU sanctions list. Economic sanctions have also been imposed against the aggressor country, covering trade, transport, energy, banking, the media and the defense sector.
- Recently, the Financial Times stated that Russia continues to believe that it will be able to easily survive Western sanctions on oil. Analysts are concerned and predict a worsening situation.
