EU Commissioner Sinkevičius: Hungary actions blocking Western defence against Russia 'shameful'

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EU Commissioner Sinkevičius claims Hungarian premier is "isolated" among other EU leaders, and that his actions only serve Europe's enemies in the Kremlin.

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00:00 EU Commissioner and former Lithuanian Minister Vyjonas Sinkovicius says the horrors of living

00:09 under Soviet rule is still a living memory for Lithuanians.

00:13 Euronews joined him in Ukraine recently where he met with President Zelensky.

00:16 Lithuania, the first of the three Baltics to declare independence from the Soviet Union

00:20 in 1990, is one of the strongest per capita donors of military and financial aid to Ukraine.

00:28 It's first of all about our history when hundreds and thousands, if you were a family of teachers,

00:35 if you were a large farmer, most likely you were sent to Siberia where most of the people

00:43 never came back, they never returned.

00:46 So you know, and if you look, not so much changed.

00:51 So many kidnapped children, so many families which had to go through some camps in Russia

00:58 and etc.

00:59 So I mean this ethnic cleannessing what they're doing has not changed this imperial ambition

01:05 which they're imposing now on Ukraine.

01:09 And Lithuania still remembers of course the part of its tragic history.

01:16 Part of the wake-up call for Europe after Russia's full-ground invasion of Ukraine,

01:19 he says, is how to avoid further complacency when it comes to security matters.

01:25 For the Western world it's extremely important to make sure that we have a plan to support

01:30 Ukraine because now this decision-making, when it's so long, when we have to fight for

01:37 every decision, that sends a very positive signal to Moscow, first of all, and very negative

01:45 to Ukraine.

01:46 I think the mistake is that they're still thinking that, you know, one month or the

01:51 other month it can be over.

01:53 We see that Russia is gambling exactly on that.

01:57 They're waiting off.

01:59 They're waiting for elections in US, elections in EU, and might be a completely different

02:05 view.

02:06 We already see some of the new governments in the EU who are not so supportive of Ukraine.

02:11 And what do you say to Viktor Orban?

02:13 I think it's shameful not to see obvious, for example, decision to postpone decisions,

02:19 not to have a vote on Sweden joining NATO.

02:26 That's obvious actions against the collective security, against the interests of the EU,

02:34 against the interests of the Western world.

02:36 And that's something that can only satisfy one side.

02:40 It's the Moscow regime.

02:42 Therefore it's not a good timing to take for granted.

02:46 It's time to actually increase our defence capabilities, defence industry, in order to

02:52 not only provide for Ukraine, but also to provide for ourselves.

02:55 [SWOOSH]

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