The West’s Ukraine Strategy Has ‘Failed,’ Hungarian Foreign Minister Says

Hungary’s prime minister and top diplomat paid a visit to the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, following a contentious parliamentary poll.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto addresses the 76th Session of the U.N. General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York City on Sept. 23, 2021. Mary Altaffer/Pool via Reuters

The Western strategy for defeating Russia’s ongoing invasion of eastern Ukraine has “failed,” Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said during a visit to the South Caucasus nation of Georgia.

“Sanctions [on Russia] are not working,” Szijjarto said in remarks to Georgia’s Imedi television channel—later picked up by the local media—on Oct. 29.