The Kremlin would have received European information from Orbán’s Hungary and proposed simulating an assassination attempt

The Foreign Minister of Hungary, Péter Szijjártówould have been providing real-time information to Moscow about the discussions that the 27 EU member countries were having at the summits of the European Council held in Brussels.

As revealed by the American newspaper The Washington Postwhich quotes a European security official on condition of anonymity, the Hungarian authorities have been regularly leaking to Moscow secret information on private conversations held at European Council meetings.

The aforementioned media also claims to have testimonies from European security officials who accuse the Hungarian foreign minister of provide private information to Russia.

These revelations against Ukraine occur at a time of weakness for Orbán, Putin’s main partner in the European Union, due to the ties between both leaders.

Hungary, under the Orbán administration, is the European country that poses the most obstacles to the financing of Ukraine facing the war.

The publication of the American newspaper coincides with a moment of maximum tension between Brussels and Budapest. Hungary continues to veto the 90 billion euro loan so that Ukraine can continue to face the Russian invasion and package number 20 of sanctions against Russian interests.

The American media affirms that the contacts between Szijjártó and the head of Russian diplomacy, Sergei Lavrovare frequent, since the Hungarian foreign minister would continually make summaries of the negotiations between the community leaders to his Russian counterpart.

According to the anonymous source cited by the newspaper, “for years practically every EU meeting It is celebrated with Moscow sitting at the table“.

The information published by the Washington Post It has had an impact among some of the European leaders, who have expressed themselves critical of the Hungarian Executive.

From the European Commission described today as “very worrying” the revelations about the possible transfer of data from the Hungarian foreign minister to his Kremlin counterpart.

“The information about the Hungarian Foreign Minister, allegedly revealing discussions behind closed doors of the Council to his Russian counterpart, is very worrying,” said the Foreign Spokesperson of the Community Executive at a press conference, Anitta Hippe“.

In parallel, he added that “the relationship of trust between the Member States, as well as between them and the institutions, is fundamental for the functioning of the EU.”

“We hope that the Hungarian Government will provide clarifications,” added the spokesperson, who repeatedly declined to provide further content on this matter.

The Polish Prime Minister Donald Tuskwas the first European leader to speak out on the matter, pointing out this Sunday that “this should not surprise anyone,” since according to Tusk, it is “known” that Hungary cooperates with Putin and that “they have known each other for a long time.”

In parallel, he has admitted that “he does not intervene except when necessary” in a European Council, due to this reason, with the aim of providing the least amount of data.

Since his return to power in 2024, Tusk has been one of the most critical European leaders with Orbán and the position maintained by Hungary regarding the Russian invasion, military support for Ukraine and different issues related to the rejection of migration policy in Europe.

For his part, the Polish foreign minister, Radosław Sikorski has pointed out that “this explains many things”, in relation to the position maintained by Hungary regarding Ukraine in recent times and the rejection of the new aid package for Ukraine, added to not supporting the new sanctions against Russia.

Hungary says they are “Fake news”

Given the seriousness of the accusations, the Hungarian Executive could not remain silent. In this way, the head of Hungarian diplomacy has reacted in X to the information, calling it false. “Fake news, as always“he explained.

In parallel, he has regretted that this type of false publications only aim to “support TISZA”, the opposition party that disputes, according to the latest polls, the possibility of ending the mandate of Viktor Orbán in Hungary, prime minister of the Magyar country since 2010.

Furthermore, Szijjártó has lamented that different EU institutions are trying to “place a puppet government”, aligned with the interests of Brussels. “You won’t make it“, he concluded in his message.

The Hungarian Government is putting all the machinery into operation ahead of the legislative elections to be held on April 12, in which Orbán’s future is at stake, in the face of the emergence of the conservative candidate. Péter Hungarian.

According to the latest surveys published in the country, the distance in favor of Magyar is still greater than 10 points, a balance that has been maintained for months, when the opposition leader began to distance himself from the current Hungarian president.

In this regard, the Executive has tried to carry out a campaign of harsh criticism towards Ukraine and the Government led by Volodímir Zelenskiin a strategy to change the focus of the campaign, which was focused on the unfavorable economic situation of the country.

Orbán, for his part, always tries to show himself as a leader contrary to the Union’s theses on migration policy, aid to Ukraine and rejection of Russia, and whom, according to Orbán himself, they are trying to bring down from Europe to install a puppet ruler.

Staging an assassination attempt

According to what was published in the Washington Postthe connection between Russia and Hungary It would not only remain in the flow of information between both cabinets.

The aforementioned media explains that Russian intelligence service advisors SVRsuggested that to alter the polls against Orbán what is known as a strategy of “game changer“, to guide the electoral campaign towards a different theme.

In this way, always according to the information of the Postthe alternative was to change the strategy, so that the paradigm of the electoral campaign was to stage an assassination attempt against the Hungarian president.

In this sense, the American media remembers how this worked for Donald Trump after surviving the assassination attempt in Pennsylvania, at a rally prior to the 2024 elections.

Trump, after surviving the shooting and being wounded in the ear, began to rise in the polls, until returning to the White House.

These Russian advisors would have told him that simulating this would help him win the parliamentary elections, as happened in USA with the Republican candidate.

For its part, the Hungarian Government has described all the information published in the Post as fake news and has assured that it is propaganda favorable to the opposition candidate.