Twenty-six European Union leaders ignored Hungary to back a declaration of support for Ukraine at an emergency meeting, underscoring the difficult road ahead as the bloc tries to adopt ambitious reforms to mobilize new support for Kyiv.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary will poll its citizens on Ukraine's potential future membership in the European Union, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Friday, a day after he refused to endorse an EU statement on support for Kyiv that was backed by the bloc's 26 other leaders.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the EU’s most Russia-friendly leader and long a thorn in the bloc’s side, refused on Thursday to sign onto the summit’s conclusions, which aimed to pledge unwavering support for Kyiv and set out conditions for achieving a peace settlement, according to people familiar with the matter.

Following Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s announcement that a nationwide poll is to be held on Ukraine’s EU membership, Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski has been wondering how the rest of the EU would vote on Hungary’s EU membership.

Twenty-six EU member states denounced Russian aggression and pledged continued support for Ukraine in a joint resolution issued at an emergency summit on March 6, despite Hungary dissenting. The lack of consensus on the declaration,