Hungary’s foreign minister said on Tuesday he thought it “unrealistic” that Russia would attack any NATO member, a view that contrasts with some other NATO member countries in the region who see Moscow as a real threat.
Relations between Russia and the West soured after Moscow annexed Crimea from Ukraine in March 2014 and backed pro-Russian separatists in the east.
NATO members including Poland and the Baltic states have voiced concern that they could be targets of hostile acts from Russia, and last month NATO leaders agreed to deploy military forces and to increase air and sea patrols there.
“I don’t think it is a realistic assumption today that Russia would attack any NATO member state,” Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in an interview with news portal Index.hu.
Szijjarto said each NATO member state had feelings of “different intensity” about a perceived threat from Russia, and that he respected other views.
“This is not how we feel about Russia. I don’t think Russia would pose an existential threat to us,” he said.
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