President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy commented on the recent indignation of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban with the statement by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg that the place of our state in the Alliance. Budapest should not tell Kyiv about membership in the bloc when it actually opposes the allies, Zelensky stressed during a conversation with reporters.

In his opinion, confusion and a strange situation arose among the Hungarian political elites..

\? … There can be no NATO allies for a country that calls NATO an enemy. I think this is inappropriate behavior.. I speak my subjective opinion. Ally is not just some kind of bravado and it is not just a word, it is the content. Allies. This is a union of states with the same vision of security and values,"

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The head of Ukraine noted that different countries in the Alliance may have different legislation, have different attitudes to certain points, but they still have a common agreement to protect each other and relevant values.

" That's impossible. So you are no longer an ally of the Alliance...

And therefore, if you are a de jure ally and de facto working against, then you should not advise Ukraine to join NATO or not to join. And you should not draw any conclusions or obstacles. If 90% tell you that we think we need to help Ukraine. Why do you think you're the only one right? "

The day before, the Vice Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament, Dora Duro, said that Ukraine's accession to NATO is supposedly impossible without the consent of Russia.. In early April, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto arrived in Moscow to discuss energy issues..