Trump will stop financing Ukraine, and European Union will not be able to do it alone: Orban
Trump will stop financing Ukraine, and European Union will not be able to do it alone: Orban
The European Union needs to rethink its support for Ukraine following Donald Trump’s U.S. election victory, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said before a summit of EU leaders on Friday, adding that Europe cannot finance the war alone, Reuters reports.
Trump has criticised the level of U.S. support for Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion and before the election promised to end the conflict before even taking office, without explaining how.
The future of Ukraine aid is among major questions facing the EU after Trump’s win, with the region struggling to put on a united front and its two biggest powers, Germany – whose government just fell apart – and France, politically weakened.
“The Americans will quit this war, first of all they will not encourage the war,” Orban, a close Trump ally, told state radio on Friday ahead of the informal EU summit he is hosting in the Hungarian capital.
“Europe cannot finance this war alone… Some still want to continue sending enormous amounts of money into this lost war but the number of those who remain silent… and those who cautiously argue that we should adjust to the new situation, is growing.”
Along with the United States, the EU and its member countries are among the biggest donors of military and financial aid to Ukraine and most EU leaders have voiced strong support for continuing on that path.
