Hungary has blocked the transfer of another aid package from the European Peace Fund to Ukraine. The amount of the tranche is 500 million euros and was to be allocated next Monday.
As ANSA reports with reference to a source, Budapest demanded guarantees that the European Peace Fund will maintain its global status in the future and will not be used exclusively to arm Kyiv.
Hungary is one of the few EU countries that does not consistently condemn Russian aggression in Ukraine. The country continues to depend on the supply of energy carriers from Russia. In an analytical note on the website of the Hungarian embassy in Washington, it is claimed that the authorities of Ukraine are oppressing ethnic minorities, in particular about 150 thousand Ukrainian Hungarians.
Using the right of veto, the country has repeatedly blocked the European Union's decision to support the Ukrainian side and condemn the Russian side - for example, it blocked approval at the pan-European level of the decision of the International Criminal Court in The Hague on the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin and children's ombudsman Maria Lvova-Belova, who are accused by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukrainian children
The European Peace Fund is an organization of the countries of the European Union, to which contributions are made by all the countries that are part of the union. Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the foundation has repeatedly allocated significant aid packages to Ukraine for both military and humanitarian purposes.
