Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in a post on Facebook on Thursday that the energy threat from Ukraine is intensifying, noting that European foreign ministers gathered in Brussels had "waved in" a new package of sanctions yesterday and "Brussels bureaucrats" had signed off on "an absurd energy policy" whose goal was to "support Ukraine at any cost".

"This is the sole factor guiding them," PM Orbán wrote. "That's why they want to cut off Russian gas and oil supplies," he said, adding that this would entail Hungarian households paying 2-3 times more for their energy.

He said energy policy should be about making energy "cheap, accessible and secure".

"Economic competitiveness and the well-being of families rest on these foundations," he said. "But it's obvious that Brussels bureaucrats are uninterested in the livelihood of Europeans."

Families in Hungary "receive energy at affordable, reduced prices, and we will protect this," he declared. "But we can only fend off the Brussels energy threat together," he said, urging Hungarians to participate in the Voks 2025 vote on the question of Ukraine's prospective EU membership.