Diplomat Roman Bezsmertnyi stated this on Espreso TV."Regarding the situation in the European direction from the perspective of the United States and Moscow, one must distinguish: Donald Trump and Putin in a war against Europe – and the United States and Russia. These things can be interpreted differently. What is objectively clear now is how both Trump and Putin are directing this work against Europe through Orban; this is already obvious. The information I possess indicates that after Europe effectively cut off funding for this work through all other channels, the issue of crude oil supply to Hungary became a key mechanism," he said.Roman Bezsmertnyi noted that Viktor Orban has become a key operator of anti-European actions on the part of both Trump and Putin. He stated that some experts consider this work to be planned. However, the diplomat believes that in this case, the anti-European interests of Putin and Trump simply coincided. "In reality, in this situation, Orban has become a key operator of anti-European actions on the part of both Trump and Putin. Some experts even believe that this work is planned. However, I do not accept this argument and say that the anti-European interests of Putin and Trump simply coincided here. They coincided because Trump does not need an economically strong Europe; he needs a weakened Europe. Moreover, he does not need an autonomous Europe in terms of power, defense, and security components. He needs it dependent on America. And the Moscow führer needs to destroy the European Union because it will be easier for him then to subjugate small European states, blackmailing them with force, blackmailing them, as it was before, with raw material supplies and so on. And this direction – it is obvious that it was not paid attention to until now. Now it is gaining more and more relevance for Europeans. A number of publications – Belgian and Italian – are writing about this," he noted.