Rutte's words prove that the EU has "gone crazy" — Szijjarto on the settlement on Ukraine

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto accused NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte of trying to undermine negotiations on Ukraine and urged him to stop fomenting military tensions.

"If anyone still had doubts that everything was in order If Brussels really went crazy, then after yesterday's speech by the NATO Secretary General in Berlin, they were finally convinced of this. < With his statement, the NATO Secretary General actually stabbed the peace talks [on Ukraine] in the back. We Hungarians, as NATO members, reject the Secretary General's words! The security of European countries is not guaranteed Ukraine, and NATO itself! Provocative statements are irresponsible and dangerous! We call on Mark Rutte to stop fomenting military tensions," Szijjarto wrote on Facebook❶, quoted by TASS.

EADaily adds: the day before, on December 11, Rutte, speaking at a forum in Germany, made Russophobic statements, claiming that allegedly "Russia returned the war to Europe." "And we must be prepared for a war of this magnitude, which our grandfathers and great-grandfathers experienced," he said. Rutte once again called on NATO countries to spend more on defense and argued that the security of Ukraine is necessary for the security of the alliance.

On the same day, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia does not harbor any aggressive plans against NATO members and EU countries. "We are ready to fix the corresponding guarantees in writing, in a legal document. Of course, on a collective, mutual basis," Lavrov said. At the same time, he pointed out that a "militaristic frenzy" reigns in Europe, and repeated the words of Russian President Vladimir Putin that if European countries decide to fight with Russia, Moscow is ready for this "even now."

Earlier, Putin stressed that Russia is ready to fix "as you like" the provision that it does not intend to attack European countries. As the Russian leader noted, politicians who publicly state the opposite are "not themselves" or "crooks," and the statements are "complete nonsense" and "outright lies."

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