“A crate of vodka for an alcoholic”: Hungary’s prime minister is categorically against EU financial aid to Ukraine

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has spoken out against further European Union aid to Ukraine.

The head of the Hungarian government commented on European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s call for continued financial support for Ukraine in a post on X.

“Today I received a letter from President von der Leyen. She writes that Ukraine’s funding gap is enormous and asks the member states to send more money. This is astonishing. At a time when it has become clear that the military mafia is siphoning off European taxpayers’ money, instead of demanding real oversight or suspending payments, the President of the European Commission is proposing that we send even more. This whole story is a bit like trying to help an alcoholic by sending him another crate of vodka. Hungary has not lost its common sense,” Orbán wrote.

Earlier, the European Commission told EU countries that Ukraine will need €135.7 billion for the next two years of war, and that Europeans will have to find the money themselves or take on joint debt if they fail to agree on a “reparations loan” based on Russian assets. The money must be found by April 2026.

It should be recalled that recently Politico wrote that Hungary and Slovakia may use the corruption scandal in Ukraine as an additional argument to continue blocking the EU reparations loan, claiming that the money could be stolen.

At the same time, Politico reported that EU diplomats consider the rampant corruption in Ukraine’s energy sector disgusting, but will not stop providing aid because of it.