Ukraine’s foreign minister has urged an investigation after leaked audio appeared to capture his Hungarian counterpart telling Moscow he would try to amend EU sanctions to its liking. Ukraine’s foreign minister Andriy Sybiga said: “these are not conversations. “It is a huge scandal … that foreign secret services were continuously wiretapping my phone calls and that these foreign secret services have now made these phone calls public one-and-a-half weeks before the Hungarian parliamentary election,” he said in a video posted to social media. Hungary, the most Kremlin-friendly country in the EU, blocked the €90bn ($100bn) loan at an EU summit earlier this month, putting immense strain on Ukraine’s finances. The lack of cash is already hindering Ukraine’s preparations for the winter to come, as the works were supposed to start in March.

Source: The Guardian April 01, 2026 02:50 UTC