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NATO allies agreed in April to begin plans for long-term military support for Ukraine in the fight against Russian occupation by creating a fund worth 100 billion euros. According to the plans, NATO would take over part of the coordination from the US-led coalition.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijártó reiterated that the Hungarian government opposes the plan.
"Hungary will not join the crazy NATO mission despite all the pressure," he said.
Meanwhile, the head of the alliance said that NATO does not intend to participate directly in the conflict". Jens Soltenberg spoke in an interview for the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, when he commented on the developments of the war in Ukraine.
According to him, the alliance faces two main tasks, to support Kiev and to prevent the spread of the conflict outside of Ukraine.
"President Putin did not believe that we would give so much help to Zelensky, but at the same time we made it clear that we would not send troops. "Ukraine did not ask us for them, they ask us for support with ammunition and offensive artillery," Stoltenberg said.
Soltenberg further stressed that he does not see "an immediate risk of any Russian military attack on any Alliance ally", despite Polish spy chief Jarosław Stróżyk saying yesterday that Putin may be preparing a small-scale operation in the Baltic Sea to test NATO's defense capabilities.
According to Stróżyk, it is likely that Putin could annex parts of Estonia or Sweden from the attack of Russian forces, but for Soltenberg there is only "reckless Russian nuclear rhetoric" on the horizon, and NATO does not see any change in Moscow's position.
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