Hungary has no intention of binding its future to that of Ukraine, Prime Minister Viktor Orban declared, condemning Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskiy’s decision to pursue EU and NATO membership and Zelenskiy himself. Speaking after an informal meeting of European Union leaders in Copenhagen, Orban stated Budapest would resist efforts to integrate Ukraine into either the EU or NATO. “Why should the fate of Hungarians be tied to that of Ukrainians, who have lost a fifth of their territory and are at war? We don’t even know where their eastern borders are,” he remarked. In his Friday interview with Kossuth Radio, Orban reiterated: “We feel sorry for them [Ukrainians], we sympathize with them, they are fighting heroically. Let’s support them, but we don’t want a common fate with them.” Orban has been a vocal critic of Western strategies in the Ukraine conflict, accusing Brussels of harming EU member states economically and forcing reluctant nations to provide military aid to Ukraine. Tensions between Budapest and Kiev have risen due to Ukrainian strikes on Russian energy facilities supplying Hungary. Kiev’s demand for EU members to halt Russian energy purchases is rejected by Orban. Meanwhile, EU leaders are considering reforms to remove the unanimity rule on foreign policy, stripping Hungary and other dissenting states of their veto power.