Hungarian Prime Minister met Russian President in Moscow on Friday to discuss the .
Putin said he wanted to take the opportunity to “discuss the nuances that have developed” over the conflict with Orban, who .
Earlier Orban said his country would use its six-month term holding the rotating EU presidency to advance a negotiated peace in Ukraine.
“You cannot make peace from a comfortable armchair in Brussels … we cannot sit back and wait for the war to miraculously end,” he wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
Criticism from fellow EU leaders
President Ursula von der Leyen warned “appeasement will not stop Putin. Only unity and determination will pave the path to a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in Ukraine,” she wrote on X.
The EU’s top diplomat was more blunt sayin Orban does not represent the European Union on his visit. He dismissed the visit as a billateral meeting between Moscow and Budapest.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the bloc’s “clear message is that Ukraine can count on our solidarity, (Russian President Vladimir) Putin cannot count on our solidarity and support waning.”
gives the central European country influence over the bloc’s agenda and priorities for those months.
lo/rm (AFP, dpa, Reuters)
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