ANKARA, April 19. /TASS/. Hungary won’t deliver weapons to Ukraine because it wants to avoid incidents near its borders similar to the one near Lvov where Russian troops destroyed a batch of foreign armaments sent to the Ukrainian army, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said at a joint press conference with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu following talks in Ankara on Tuesday.

"The most important thing for us is Hungary’s security and we will do everything possible to prevent drawing our country into a war," the Hungarian top diplomat said. He reiterated that the Hungarian government refused to supply arms to Ukraine and did not permit to transport weapons to the Ukrainian army over its territory. According to him, this was a right decision since very recently a large batch of foreign arms sent to Ukraine was destroyed near Lvov. "We don’t want for similar events to happen in the areas near the Hungarian-Ukrainian border populated by [ethnic] Hungarians," the foreign minister said.

"That said, we, of course, support Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and will continue the largest humanitarian operation in Hungary’s history [on providing aid to the residents of Transcarpathia] as well as accept refugees from Ukraine," he added.

On April 18, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported that Russian troops, using high-precision missiles, delivered a strike on the 124th Joint Logistics Support Center of the Ukrainian Logistics Forces Command near Lvov. As a result, the logistics center and the large consignments of foreign weapons that arrived in Ukraine over several days from the US and European countries were destroyed.