President Vladimir Putin met with Viktor Orban. “Kiev's policy excludes the possibility of a peaceful solution to the conflict,” the Russian president reportedly said. Prior to this, the Hungarian government leader visited the United States and met with President-elect Donald Trump. The conversation was also said to be related to the situation in Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the situation in Ukraine in a telephone conversation with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the Kremlin announced on Wednesday.
According to a statement after the meeting, President Putin told Orbán that Kiev's policies still exclude the possibility of a peaceful resolution to the conflict.
At the meeting, bilateral trade and economic cooperation and “further promotion of joint energy projects” were also discussed.
In November, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke by phone with President Putin, who was particularly furious: Volodymyr Zelensky.
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Viktor Orban previously visited the US and met with US President-elect Donald Trump, his colleague billionaire Elon Musk, and future US administration national security adviser Michael Walz. We had a meeting.
The meeting took place on Monday at President Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida. Neither the U.S. president-elect nor other participants in the meeting have disclosed what they discussed, but Hungarian opposition media speculated that one of the topics on the agenda was regulating Russia's occupation of parts of Ukraine. I am doing it.
At the same time, media outlets have noted that Trump has spoken by phone with the Hungarian prime minister several times since winning the presidential election in November. What he was most interested in was Orbán's thoughts on the possibility of an early end to Russia's war with Ukraine.
See: Conversation between Sergei Lavrov and Tucker Carlson. “We are not at war with the United States.”
Commentators on the opposition website Nepzava believe that Trump's return to the White House will give Orbán a chance to temporarily become a “small player in world politics.”
It is also possible, based on a recent phone call with President Trump, that Hungarian government leaders are willing to undertake a “peace mission” to Kiev and Moscow. In it, he was able to convey “Donald Trump's message” to the parties to the conflict regarding the end of the war.
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