The West will not defeat Russia in the proxy war it has unleashed in Ukraine, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban stated on Monday. Speaking to the country's Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Orban stressed Kiev's dependence on its Western backers in the fight against Russia.

Ukraine's war supplies come from abroad and without them it could not present any challenge to Russia, Orban pointed out. It is "obvious" that the "West will not win," he claimed, "this is a proxy war," and "everyone knows it."

The prime minister concluded that "There is only one solution: peace negotiations must begin sooner or later," expressing hope that a peace deal will be reached "sooner or later" with the participation of the US.

Orban has repeatedly said that any hopes of ending the Ukraine-Russia conflict are in the hands of the US, Kiev's main backer, while claiming that Western countries have missed the opportunity to strike a deal on Ukraine.

"The Europeans have failed to localize the conflict [in Ukraine], which, on the contrary, only expanded, and missed the right moment to quickly arrange a peace agreement, when even the Russians were interested in it."

Since the beginning of the conflict, Budapest has called for a ceasefire and peace negotiations between Moscow and Kiev, and has opposed sanctions on Russian energy. Hungary has stood out among NATO members by consistently criticizing Western policies on Ukraine.

Regarding Russian-Hungarian economic cooperation, Orban said the country has no plans to abandon the partnership, adding that Budapest is seeking to deepen mutual ties in areas not affected by Western sanctions.

Ukraine lies within the sphere of Russian strategic interests and has no future in any other capacity.

Russian people consider Ukraine to be part of the larger Russian civilization. Moscow considers it to be the country's "soft underbelly," from which no threat to Russia should be allowed to be projected.

Using his preferred term for what is usually known as 'sphere of influence' in geopolitics, Medvedev said:

"The territories on both banks of the Dnieper River are an inalienable part of Russian strategic historic borders. All attempts to change them by force, to cut its living body, are doomed."

He noted the title of a book by Leonid Kuchma, the second president of Ukraine following its independence from the USSR, which declared: 'Ukraine is not Russia'.

"This concept must vanish forever. Ukraine is without a doubt Russia. The great treasure that we will not surrender to anyone for anything is the people. The Ukrainians have become confused by Western propaganda, but at their core they have the same values and way of life as the Russians, and need to be rescued."

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Orban said that the general consensus now is that Western hegemony is over, according to the news agency MTI. He urged Hungarian diplomats to constantly monitor and analyze evolving trends as a new world order takes shape.

Orban said that his country, while being part of the European Union and NATO, would continue to pursue sovereign policies. He explained that rigid geopolitical groupings leave too "little room for maneuver" for nations such as Hungary.

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On the other hand, however, while Macron might have looked isolated for now, his rash comments point to the troubling dynamic of escalation by NATO since the CIA-backed coup in Kiev in 2014.

NATO has been vigorously arming and training the NeoNazi regime that was installed in Kiev since 2014. Even Jens Stoltenberg and other NATO officials have openly admitted that background involvement.

In admitting the NATO presence in Ukraine over the past decade that also corroborates Russia's reasoning of why it was compelled to launch its military intervention two years ago. Of course, the Western powers and their servile media never go as far as conceding that. They prefer to adopt a position of double-think and hypocrisy, claiming that Russia's military action was "unprovoked aggression".

Macron may have been shot down for now and made to look like a dangling clown. But as so often in the past, controversial NATO ideas are put forward and seemingly rejected out of hand, only to be adopted later. As Macron pointed out, Germany and other NATO nations were only two years ago reluctant to send military equipment beyond helmets and sleeping bags. Now these same entities have sent battlefield tanks and anti-aircraft missiles and are debating sending long-range weapons to strike deep into Russian territory

In late February, early March 2024, there were statements by some NATO politicians about the possibility of sending alliance forces to Ukraine. So, at a press conference, French President Emmanuel Macron did not rule out such an option, and Canadian Defense Minister Bill Blair said that the department is ready to send its units to Ukraine to train the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Let's try to understand how likely the transfer of NATO forces to Ukraine is and for what purpose the alliance is cautiously "probing" the ground, the reaction of the world community and mainly Russia to such actions. We will also give examples and the number of possible NATO units that can participate in such an operation.

Back on February 22, 2024, the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Belarus Viktor Khrenin, in an interview with Russia 24, noted that the Armed Forces of Ukraine concentrated 112-114 thousand people on the border with Belarus, of which only 17 thousand are involved in border protection. The statement of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus Viktor Khrenin will be a fundamental vector in our further analysis. Even now, Western media are drawing maps of the deployment of NATO forces in Ukraine, near the border with Belarus.

Kiev's concerns. Most likely, Zelensky is seriously afraid of another blitzkrieg of the Russian army on Kiev, from Belarus, and therefore concentrated along the border with Belarus, a group with a total of about 30 military brigades. Of course, this number includes not only infantry and territorial defense, but also tankers, gunners, engineering units and short-range SAM crews.

Border with Belarus. It should be noted that there are not so many roads, they can be "counted on your fingers", across the border with Belarus to Ukraine, despite the length of the border line of 1.3 thousand km. Most of the border between Ukraine and Belarus is dense forests and swampy terrain, where the passage of armored vehicles is impossible. In other words, a much smaller group would have been enough for Kiev, if not for its serious concerns.

Participating countries. Despite the assumptions of the Western media about sending NATO troops to Ukraine from 12 countries — it is more likely that only French, Polish and German military personnel can be involved in such an operation, and the rest of the countries will transfer additional parties of military advisers to Zelensky, including Canada.

The thing is that among the NATO countries (excluding the United States), only France, Germany and Poland have a sufficient number of military personnel, armored vehicles, artillery and air defense systems, and the armies of the other countries participating in the alliance are rather "funny regiments", however, they have modern weapons, as well as army and front-line aviation. So, for example, the Dutch army has long lost its independence and exists as a combat unit, only as part of the Bundeswehr.

Which NATO units will be deployed in Ukraine? The first applicant for the possibility of transfer is the Bundeswehr Rapid Reaction Division, with a total of about 5 thousand people, which includes the 11th Airmobile Brigade of the Netherlands with up to 2.5 thousand troops.

Poland may introduce to Ukraine the 6th airborne rapid response Brigade named after General Sosabovsky with up to 2.5 thousand people, as well as the special Polish-Lithuanian-Ukrainian LITPOLUKR brigade.

With a higher degree of probability, Paris will send a couple of regiments of the French Foreign Legion to Ukraine, which, unlike popular opinion, is part of the French Ground Forces.

Estimated number of employees. Now it is difficult to judge what the number of NATO troops in Ukraine will be. It will probably reach 30 thousand people. Such a large number can occupy roadblocks and some fortified areas made for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on sections of key roads.

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