The situation is tense: Russia has moved technology to the Polish border, harsh words of the head of Hungarian diplomacy – Topky.sk

“The latest report on the Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT) website states that military equipment, previously located in the Russian city of Briansk, has arrived by train in Brest, a city 50 kilometers from Ukraine and on the state border with Poland.” wrote a channel on his website TVP.Info.

Brest has an important location near the borders of three countries: Belarus, Poland and Ukraine. It is also an important crossroads of rail and road transport and a port on the river Muchavec. Moscow has gathered tens of thousands of troops near Ukraine’s borders in recent months, raising concerns in the West that it is preparing to invade Ukraine.

Moscow does not want to prolong the security debate with EU involvement, Lavrov said

Moscow will not allow discussions on Russia’s security requirements to drag on indefinitely, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in the Russian parliament. According to him, this is visible from the efforts to transfer this topic to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) or in the European Union’s constant calls for it to be involved in the discussions as well. Reuters interpreted the words of the head of Russian diplomacy as meaning that Moscow does not want the talks to be extended by including the EU or the OSCE.

If Russia does not receive a constructive response to its proposals from the West, it will take retaliatory measures, he told Lavrov MPs, according to Interfax. “We will not allow our projects to become entangled in endless discussions, and such a line is clearly visible, especially in the efforts to bring this issue down to the OSCE or through the European Union’s persistent calls to find a place for it in the debates.” the head of Russian diplomacy let himself be heard.

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In December, Moscow published draft documents with security guarantees, which it is demanding from the USA and NATO, the main partner for the negotiations is in the current crisis for the Russian side Washington. Moscow is asking the alliance, among other things, to commit itself not to expand to Ukraine and to abandon military activities in Ukraine, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia. Both Washington and NATO are rejecting Russia’s demands, as they did in a recent round of diplomatic talks.

At their January meeting in Geneva, Foreign Secretary Antony Blinken promised that Washington would send written answers to Russia’s Russian security requests this week. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told reporters today that Kiev had no objections to the United States’ answers, and that Ukraine’s position had been taken into account.

Security analyst Smid: Russia plays diplomatic poker with the West

The West cannot demand that Hungary weaken relations with Russia

Even in the tense situation around Ukraine, the Western powers cannot demand that Hungary loosen its existing good relations with Russia, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in an interview for the online edition of the Magyar Nemzet newspaper published on Wednesday.

“No one can ask us to do that. Just because those who apply war rhetoric to the Russians are making huge deals in Russia and with Russia. Let’s just look at the economic data. Since the sanctions against Russia, the Germans and the French have increased their exports to Russia by many billions of euros, “ noted the head of Hungarian diplomacy.

According to him, if Budapest had not built a fair relationship with Moscow over the past decade, it would not have been possible to buy Sputnik vaccines against covid at a time when the worst variants of the new coronavirus were emerging and vaccines from Western countries were not yet arriving, delayed or less .

Among the other benefits of good Hungarian-Russian relations, he mentioned the advantageous gas supply agreement concluded shortly before the gas supply panic broke out in Europe, as well as assistance in evacuating Hungarian citizens at the beginning of the year after the demonstrations in Kazakhstan.

In terms of Hungarian-Russian relations, 2021 was the most successful year, and the forthcoming February meeting of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow should take these relations even further, the minister thinks.

Szijjártó emphasized that Ukraine could not count on Hungary’s support for its anti-minority policy in the current conflict with Russia. “Unless this policy is changed, for which the Hungarian minority living in the Transcarpathian region receives only deprivation of rights, provocation and intimidation, then the Hungarian government will have only limited opportunities to support Ukraine.” added the Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs.

The situation is tense: Russia has moved technology to the Polish border, harsh words from the head of Hungarian diplomacy

Moscow does not want to prolong the security debate with EU involvement, Lavrov said

Security analyst Smid: Russia plays diplomatic poker with the West

The West cannot demand that Hungary weaken relations with Russia

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