Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has declared that a plan by the European Union to financially support Ukraine using frozen Russian assets is a "dead end," as EU leaders met in Brussels on Thursday to finalize a funding strategy for Kyiv's war effort and reconstruction.
Orbán, a longtime skeptical voice on EU support measures, told reporters ahead of the European Council summit that negotiations over seizing or repurposing Russian state assets have "stalled" and lack sufficient support among member states to be viable. "The whole idea of using Russian assets to support Ukraine," the Hungarian leader said, "is a dead end."
