Budapest, July 26 -- Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, referring to the wide array of conflicts plaguing the world today - most prominently the Russia-Ukraine war and the EU's increasing desire to be an active participant in it, has said that the likelihood of a World War III is ever increasing, and urged the international community to do all it can to prevent it, reports Russian state media TASS.

"Perhaps the most important question now is whether there will be a third world war, and the answer is that the likelihood of a world war is constantly increasing," he said in an address broadcast by the M1 TV channel.

As evidence, Orban cited the results of polls in six major countries, whose citizens consider the threat of a new world...