Hungary opposes NATO mission to train Ukrainian military

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BRUSSELS, May 30. () –

The Hungarian authorities announced this Thursday their rejection of the creation of a NATO training mission to train Ukrainian soldiers to combat Russian aggression, citing the “global war risks” that this initiative would entail.

“We will not allow the participation of Hungarian troops, nor the use of our territory for such activities, nor the spending of Hungarian taxpayers’ money on this mission,” Hungarian Government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs detailed in his official profile of the social network

According to the spokesperson, the Hungarian Foreign Minister, Peter Szijjarto, will transfer the opposition from Budapest during the informal meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Prague this Friday, at which plans to create a mission will be on the table of training that the Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, announced in February, when he defended a greater role for the alliance in supporting Ukraine and detailed that the training center will be located in Poland.

According to Kovacs, Szijjarto will warn the rest of NATO members that the military bloc has crossed “its own ‘red lines'” by intensifying the delivery of weapons to Ukraine and also with the training of Ukrainian troops.

The training center will be established throughout 2024, as part of NATO’s rapprochement with kyiv, being one of the examples of concrete support that the allies will offer to Ukraine ahead of the Washington leaders’ summit next July.