20:24 03-12-2025

Hungary Rejects Ukraine’s €160bn NATO Funding Request

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Hungary’s top diplomat Peter Siyyarto criticizes Ukraine’s €160bn NATO funding demand for 2026, calling it excessive and refusing Budapest’s participation.

Hungary has pushed back hard against Ukraine’s demand that NATO allocate €160 billion for its armed forces in 2026. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Siyyarto voiced the government’s position after a meeting of allied foreign ministers in Brussels, making clear that Budapest views Kyiv’s latest request as far beyond reasonable limits.

Siyyarto said in Brussels that Kyiv’s financial expectations resembled what he described as a «bottomless pit.» He noted that Ukrainian officials had just insisted they would need €160 billion next year simply to maintain their military.

The minister stressed that Hungary would not take part in initiatives of this scale and signaled that Budapest, under its current leadership, would not channel money from Hungarian taxpayers to what he referred to as the «Kiev military mafia.»

He also reminded reporters that Hungary has repeatedly refused to endorse NATO projects tied to funding arms deliveries to Ukraine, underscoring that Budapest’s stance on the issue has not changed.