Hungary will veto EU sanctions against Russian nuclear energy - PM Orbán

Reuters reported this with reference to an interview with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

Ukraine has called on 27 EU countries to put Russia's state-owned nuclear energy company Rosatom under sanctions. But Hungary, which has a Russian-made nuclear power plant in the country and plans to scale it up, will block this European decision.

Orban reiterated in an interview that sanctions on nuclear energy “must obviously be vetoed.”

“We will not allow the plan to include nuclear energy into the sanctions be implemented,” the Hungarian premier said. “This is out of the question.”