Sanctions resulting from Vladimir Putin 's full-scale invasion of Ukraine are hampering the construction of a Moscow-funded nuclear energy plant in NATO member Turkey, the head of Russia's atomic energy agency said.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said he thinks it impossible that Russian President Vladimir Putin would attack a NATO country. "No serious person can speak of Russia intending to attack NATO," Orbán told the German newspaper Bild in an interview released on Monday.

Europe’s “war policy” is hurting its people and economy, Hungary’s prime minister has said after meeting Vladimir Putin as part of an unsanctioned attempt to resolve the conflict in Ukraine.