Hungarian Prime Minister Putin's Hard Insinuation Of Ukraine's Corruption Scandal Circle Zelenskyy: This Is Crazy!

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban/PHOTO via Instagram @orbanvictor

JAKARTA - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said a corruption scandal that shocked Ukraine showed rampant chaos in the country. The European Union was urged to stop its funding for Kyiv.

Orban - who is close to Russian President Vladimir Putin - called those involved in the corruption "military mafia."

"The Ukrainian military mafia network has been uncovered, with thousands of connections to Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The Minister of Energy has resigned, and the main suspect has left the country. This chaos is what Brussels wants to use to disburse taxpayers' money. What is not lost on the battlefield will be stolen by the military mafia. This is crazy," wrote Orban on Facebook as reported by TASS, Thursday, November 13.

Orban said Hungary would not send its citizens' money to Ukraine and would not tolerate "any financial demands or extortion" from Zelenskyy.

He stressed it was time for Brussels to understand where European taxpayers' money went.

Earlier, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijarto also stated that the corruption scandal that was sticking out at the highest level of Ukraine's government proved the need to stop funding the European Union against the country.

On November 10, the Ukrainian anti-corruption agency held an operation to eradicate corruption in the energy sector.

The search was carried out at the house of Timur Mindich, often referred to as Zelenskyy's "dompet", as well as at the residence of Justice Minister German Galuschenko, who previously served as Minister of Energy, and at the company Energoatom.

The indictment has been filed against a number of parties involved in the case, including Mindich, former Deputy Prime Minister Alexey Chernyshov, former adviser to Energy Minister Igor Miroyuk, Energy CEO Dmitry Basov, along with several businessmen and employees of the so-called secret office responsible for money laundering. According to investigative reports, more than $100 million has been laundered.

On Wednesday, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko announced Galuschenko and Energy Minister Svetlana Grinchuk had submitted a letter of resignation regarding the corruption scandal.