He shared his fears that one of the EU or NATO countries could send its troops to Ukraine.

“We have never been so close to turning a local war into a global one,” Orban was quoted as saying by TASS.

According to the calculations of the Hungarian government, at the moment there are already 35 states supplying weapons to Ukraine, 17 of them have offered tanks.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that Western countries, by supplying weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, become involved in Kyiv's war crimes.

Earlier, the leader of the faction of the right-wing National Rally party, Marine Le Pen, stressed that Kyiv would not be able to win the conflict without NATO joining it.