If it were solely up to US President Donald Trump, there would already be peace in Ukraine, but if it were up to Brussels, they would bring war to the European Union as well, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in Washington, DC, on Tuesday.
Szijjártó hailed Trump’s return to office as the dawn of a “new golden age” in Hungarian-US relations, calling the US president “the sole embodiment of hope for peace” in Ukraine.
“The hope for peace today is actually called Donald Trump,” Szijjártó said, according to a ministry statement. “American peace policy offers hope that this bloody war in our neighborhood may end sometime after four years. We are grateful to Donald Trump for these efforts.”
Szijjártó said it must be clearly stated on the fourth anniversary of the invasion that “if Donald Trump had been president, this war would not have broken out, and if it had been up to Donald Trump, this war would have ended last year.”
Donald Trump makes a speech during the inaugural meeting of the “Board of Peace” on 19 February 2026. Photo: Anadolu Agency
“The war has not ended because Europeans in Brussels have decided that this war must continue. Europeans in Brussels live in an atmosphere of war fanaticism,” he said.
“In Brussels, they decided that they want to send troops to Ukraine, that they want to flood Europe with the flames of war, that they want to send Europeans’ money, including Hungarians’ money, to Ukraine, throwing tens and hundreds of billions of euros into a bottomless pit, and they want to bring Ukraine into the European Union, which would obviously bring the war into the EU as well,” he added.
Szijjártó said the Hungarian government had a clear position and “it will continue to say no to Brussels on these issues”. “As long as there is a patriotic government, we will say no to Brussels on every issue related to the war,” he added.
Photo: Screenshot – Szijjártó Péter / Facebook
“We will not allow Hungary to be dragged into the war, we will not allow Hungarian people’s money to be taken to Ukraine and we will not allow Ukraine to be brought into the European Union,” he said.
“We are in a very fierce battle with Brussels here, and it takes daily effort to say no to Brussels,” Szijjártó said. “And if we miss even one day, they would immediately drag us into the war. If it were up to Donald Trump, there would be peace; if it were up to Brussels, there would be war.”
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