Aoife Hilton – ABC News July 5, 2024
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has arrived in Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov confirmed to a Russian state TV reporter on Friday that Ukraine would be among the topics on the agenda when Mr Orbán and Mr Putin meet.
Mr Orbán’s press chief Bertalan Havasi told Hungarian news agency MTI that the prime minister’s trip to Russia on Friday was a “peace mission”.
The Russian president said on Friday he was ready to discuss the “nuances” of peace proposals to end the war in Ukraine.
“I hope we will have an opportunity to exchange views on building bilateral relations in this difficult situation and, of course, to talk about the prospects for the development of the biggest European crisis, I mean in the Ukrainian direction,” he said.
‘Appeasement will not stop’ Putin, EU says
The trip marks a rare visit to Moscow by a European leader since Russia invaded Ukraine more than two years ago.
The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, criticised Mr Orbán’s visit to Moscow in a statement.
“Prime Minister Orbán has not received any mandate from the EU Council to visit Moscow,” he said.
He added the International Criminal Court had indicted Mr Putin for his role in the forced deportation of children from Ukraine to Russia, and had a warrant out for his arrest.
Mr Orbán claims his trip does not “need a mandate, because I do not represent anything”.
In a statement on X, he insisted peace between Russia and Ukraine could not be brokered “from a comfortable armchair in Brussels”.
“We cannot sit back and wait for the war to miraculously end,” he said.
In a live feed on state-owned Russian news site Ria Novosti, he praised his country’s place in European affairs.
“Hungary will slowly become the last European country that can talk to everyone,” he predicted.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen asserted that “appeasement will not stop” Mr Putin.
European Council President Charles Michel also took to X on Thursday to express his disappointment in Hungary’s prime minister.
“The European Council is clear: Russia is the aggressor, Ukraine is the victim. No discussions about Ukraine can take place without Ukraine,” he said.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda criticised the Hungarian prime minister for discussing matters with Mr Putin at all.
“If you truly seek peace, you don’t shake hands with a bloody dictator, you put all your efforts to support Ukraine,” he wrote on X.
Mr Orbán’s visit comes only days after he made a similar unannounced trip to Ukraine, where he met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and proposed Ukraine consider agreeing to an immediate ceasefire with Russia.
Mr Orbán — who is widely considered to be Mr Putin’s closest partner in the European Union — has routinely blocked, delayed or watered down efforts from the EU to assist Ukraine and impose sanctions on Moscow for its war.
He has long argued for a cessation of hostilities in Ukraine, but has not outlined what that might mean for the country’s territorial integrity or future security.
That posture has frustrated Hungary’s EU and NATO allies, which have broadly considered Russia’s invasion as a breach of international law and a threat to the security of countries in Eastern Europe.
Mr Putin said last month Russia would end the war in Ukraine only if Kyiv agreed to drop its NATO ambitions and hand over the entirety of four provinces claimed by Moscow, demands Kyiv swiftly rejected as tantamount to surrender.
Maybe Orban starts the EU breaking apart? Let’s see how many Brits who would deny a democratic vote and say we should ignore the vote to Leave still want to be tied to a corrupt dictatorship as it’s going down. I didn’t like the last election result either and I suspect it was dishonest in a lot of places but we’ve got to move forward and work with what we’re left with, because a call to bin it is a call to end all elections.
EU being dishonest, according to the article, saying Ukraine has to be in the talks, but Orban did talk with Zelensky
Maybe the title should be:
Hungary Prime Minister Victor Orban visits Moscow for Lunch with Vladimir Putin?
Orban is another crypto-Commie who wears yarmulke & meets with the Chandalas.
Jutin: ‘The morons think we’re enemies of NATO.’
Orbin: ‘They don’t even realize we work for the same global Jew-Commie cartel setting up these white nationalistic dummies to get slaughtered, just like in WWI.’
Jutin: ‘When I put on my yarmulke & meet with our Talmudic Chandala Lubavitch cult they tell me: “Vlad, the less white males the better. You are doing great things for our cause to create an all nonwhite planet by eliminating millions of whites in Ukraine.”
What the Nazis don’t like, is that Orban isn’t a Nazis, and they’ve not been able to get shot of him or had him eliminated.
While Orban says it true and straight, there are many others who for various reasons, such as domestic politics, baseball bat economics, colour coups, or assassination, they lie low, head below the parapet, but they could break out, and the coming US election could be the perfect timing.
Orban is sending a global message to the entire thinking world, that if ‘I’ can talk to Putin, why the feck can’t YOU? This is a huge chink in the Nazi armour.
We have two big NATO players toying with the idea of ‘Feck the Nazis’. The sheeple of Europe don’t want a war with Russia.
The WW2 legacy power bloc is at breaking point, and enormous damage has been done by Biden & Obama.
When most on here say they’re all in it together, they’re wrong. There’s a seismic shift underway. Erdogan is also breaking away, and I might add, neither country has any interest in the WEF wanktards who get so much airtime on here.
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