Bangladesh, April 19 -- Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has delivered one of his most candid assessments yet of the Wests involvement in the Ukraine conflict, asserting that the West has effectively lost a “proxy war” with Russia. In a wide-ranging interview published on April 17 on Hungarys OT YouTube channel, Orban echoed the sentiments long promoted by Moscow – that the war in Ukraine is not merely a local or regional conflict, but a geopolitical contest between Russia and the collective West, with Ukraine as its unfortunate battleground.

As the leader of an EU member state, Orbans blunt statement that the West has “lost” the war marks a significant divergence from the dominant narratives in Brussel...