Viktor Orbán gave an exclusive interview in a special edition of Hír TV's Napi current program.

The Prime Minister also spoke to Zsolt Bayer about the elections and the war taking place next door.

The opposition insists that the prime minister is forcing war psychosis, and it is a classic dramaturgical rule that if a gun is put on stage, it must go off by the end of the third act. But now the powers that be are putting nuclear weapons on stage, which is why Zsolt Bayer asked the question, what can we hope for?

Viktor Orbán replied that "war is not a compulsion or fate or a stroke of God or an inescapable curse, war is a consequence of human decisions" . He also added:

even now, we can tell, right from the moment that the Russian president gave the order to attack Ukraine - which was a human decision - how those human decisions followed one after the other, bringing us closer and closer to open conflict."

Among other things, the situation escalated because there were people who were not honest and did not keep their word. As he emphasized,

"the German chancellor said two years ago that they would only send helmets, but not lethal weapons. As they also said that some sanctions are needed, but they will not cover the energy sector". As he said, "we started from here".

He then continued: "today we are at a point where German tanks are running around the territory of Ukraine, German air defense systems are being delivered and the entire European economy has been cut off from the Russian energy system, which otherwise provides a cheap and reasonable supply".

The interviewer, Zsolt Bayer, said that "two and a half years ago, no one thought that a war could break out on the continent, and a year ago, no one would have thought that the entire European Union would try to enter this war." Regarding this, Viktor Orbán stated that "things are possible that we don't think about today, or we simply dismiss them". As he said

"this is also the answer when the government parties are accused of exaggerating the danger of war".

In the interview, he also said that he had discussed with Russian President Vladimir Putin a few weeks before the outbreak of the war, and at that time he saw a 50-50 chance of ending the conflict, while it was clear that the Russians could not accept that Ukraine was moving towards NATO membership. lasts According to him,

"if we continue at half the current pace, it will take a few months and an open military confrontation."

The entire conversation can be seen in the video below: