A top Hungarian diplomat has blamed the West for trying to expand the war in Ukraine, following reports that the Biden administration has decided to allow Ukraine to use U.S.-supplied missile strikes inside Russia.
Péter Szijjártó, Hungary’s foreign minister, posted on social media that “the supporters of the war in Washington and Brussels have launched a final, desperate attack on the new reality,” warning of “the extension of the war in Ukraine to the world.”
On Sunday, Reuters and multiple other news outlets reported that President Joe Biden is to authorize Ukraine to use U.S.-provided weapons to launch strikes against Russian territory.
The decision comes after Ukraine spent months urging the U.S. to authorize long-range strikes into Russian territory. The White House had resisted due to fears of escalation, but Moscow’s decision to deploy North Korean soldiers to Ukraine has reportedly changed the administration’s thinking.