In the context of the fact that Austria and Hungary agreed not to provide any military support to Ukraine, allegedly to "

According to the publication, Hungary is armed with 44 T-72M1 tanks, four Leopard 2A4HU, 120 BTR-80A / AM units, 260 BTR-80 and a couple of dozen more armored vehicles.. There is also not much artillery - 31 D-20 howitzers and 82-mm mortars, as well as four Panzerhaubitze-2000, which the country received in 2020.

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Hungary also has helicopters: six Mi-24Vs, two Mi-24Ps, 20 H145Ms, five Mi-17s, three Mi-8s and another ten Mi-8s in storage. Hungarian air defense consists of 16 Cube air defense systems and an unknown number of Mistral air defense systems.

“Given this list, we can assume that the “maximum” for which Hungary would be “born” is a few dozen armored personnel carriers and, probably, some kind of helicopters. The same T-72M1 - except perhaps under the condition of a "

In Austria, the situation is better, including richer armored vehicles: 56 Leopard 2A4 tanks, 112 Ulan infantry fighting vehicles (ASCOD), 112 Pandur wheeled armored vehicles, 216 Dingo 2 and IVECO LMV armored vehicles and 49 engineering armored vehicles. From artillery - 48 self-propelled guns M109A5OE, already familiar to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as 40 sGrW 86 mortars of 120-mm caliber in storage. The publication does not mention anything about aviation and air defense.

“As a result, one could say that Austria could just become one of the members of the “tank coalition” for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and strengthen it with both armor and artillery,” the newspaper notes..

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Earlier, the Hungarian Foreign Ministry Peter Szijjarto said that sanctions against Russia are leading Europe to the abyss..

And because of the statements of the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban that he does not believe in the victory of Ukraine and believes that it is gradually turning into an “unmanageable ruin” and that “Putin cannot afford to lose the war and is not losing, because in.

We add that Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer also did not demonstrate a particularly pro-Ukrainian position and in December he said that he was ready to contact Vladimir Putin to help end the war in Ukraine..