'Like helping alcoholic with vodka': Orbán rejects EU call to increase Ukraine aid

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"She (von der Leyen, - ed.) writes that Ukraine’s financing gap is significant and asks member states to send more money. It's astonishing. At a time when it has become clear that a war mafia is siphoning off European taxpayers’ money, instead of demanding real oversight or suspending payments, the Commission President suggests we send even more," Orbán stated.

According to him, Budapest "has not lost its common sense."

"This whole matter is a bit like trying to help an alcoholic by sending them another crate of vodka," the politician added.

• Earlier, after a corruption scandal in Ukraine, Viktor Orbán stated that a "wartime mafia network with connections to Zelenskyy was exposed." The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reacted by publishing a photo of him in a zebra-colored suit.