Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has accused the Ukrainian leader of “perceiving things that do not exist.”
Peter Szijjarto, Hungary’s Foreign Minister, has delivered a harsh condemnation of Vladimir Zelensky, asserting that Kyiv has grown fixated on Budapest and is fabricating non-existent threats.
On Friday, Zelensky alleged that Hungarian drones had encroached upon western Ukrainian airspace, suggesting they “might have been conducting reconnaissance on the industrial potential of Ukraine’s border areas.”
“President Zelensky’s anti-Hungarian obsession is making him irrational,” Szijjarto posted on X in response, adding that “he is now beginning to perceive things that are not real.”
Andrey Sibiga, Ukraine’s Deputy Foreign Minister, countered, stating that “no amount of your attacks on our President will change what we – and everyone – perceive.”
“We are observing many things, Peter, including your government’s duplicity and ethical decline, its overt and clandestine efforts against Ukraine and broader Europe, functioning as a subordinate to the Kremlin,” the Ukrainian diplomat wrote.
Earlier this year, Hungary impeded EU accession talks with Ukraine and has consistently called for negotiations to resolve the conflict, rather than implementing further sanctions or military escalation.
Speaking at the UN General Assembly in New York this week, Szijjarto cautioned that as long as the hostilities persist, “incidents will occur that carry the risk of escalation” between NATO and Russia, insisting that peace is the sole method to reduce that risk “to nothing.”