Hungarian parliament fails to support resolution on Putin's arrest under ICC warrant

Ágnes Vadai, deputy head of the Democratic Coalition party, which initiated the resolution, said this at a press conference on Wednesday, European Pravda reports.

According to Vadai, the Hungarian government had previously said that it would not be able to arrest Putin because, although it had ratified the Rome Statute of the ICC, it had not implemented it into national law. But it was this proposal that was rejected by the Fidesz party.

“It is quite obvious that Viktor Orbán serves Putin and will not allow the Russian president to be arrested if he comes to Hungary. He serves Putin by buying Russian gas from him at a very high price,” the politician emphasized.

Vadai added that “Orban is interested in Putin and profits,” not the fate of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia, and that is why Fidesz, despite talking about peace, rejected the resolution in the parliamentary foreign affairs committee.

• Last week, Orban had called Ukraine a “financially non-existent country,” even though he himself is dependent on EU subsidies. Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded.

• Earlier, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó called on US and Russian Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin to sit down at the negotiating table to end the war in Ukraine.