President Volodymyr Zelenskyі believes that the behavior of Hungary and its relations with Russia do not correspond to the status of a NATO ally.
He said this in an interview with Finnish, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian journalists.
"How to resolve the dispute with Budapest? The question is only Budapest's desire. It seems to me that there is political entanglement of the political elites in Hungary. It is a very strange situation, can a NATO country be for Russia and against NATO?" Zelenskyі said.
According to him, there cannot be NATO allies for a country that calls NATO an enemy.
"I believe that this is inappropriate behavior. I am speaking my subjective opinion. An ally is not just a word, it is a meaning. It is a union of states with the same view on security, on values. They treat certain moments differently, but there is an agreement allies who protect each other and their respective values," the president said.
"And if all the allies say that Russia calls us an enemy, we have to put Russia in its place, then one country cannot say - no, Russia is our ally. This cannot be. This means that you are no longer an ally of the Alliance. And therefore, if you are de jure an ally, but de facto you are working against it, so you should not advise Ukraine to join NATO or not. And you should not create obstacles," he added.
It will be recalled that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán expressed his indignation at the statement of the NATO Secretary General during his visit to Kyiv that Ukraine should become a member of the Alliance in the future.
Previously, in one of the last interviews, Orban called Ukraine "financially non-existent", lamenting that Europe helps it finance many basic needs, and declared that without this support "the war will end immediately".
His statement was almost immediately praised in Moscow, and official Kyiv responded by reminding of Hungary's dependence on EU funds.
In addition, the ruling Fidesz party failed a draft resolution that would have called for the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin on a warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC).