Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrived in Moscow. The MTI agency reported this with reference to his press secretary Bertalan Havashi, TASS writes.
Hours before reports of the visit emerged, Orban said that “it is impossible to achieve peace from a comfortable chair in Brussels.” According to the secretary, Orban will meet with Vladimir Putin in Moscow. The Hungarian Prime Minister came to Russia “as part of his peacekeeping mission,” Havasi added.
On July 4, Radio Liberty and VSquare investigative media journalist Szabolcs Panyi reported that Orban could fly to Moscow. According to them, the Prime Minister should be accompanied by the head of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry, Peter Szijjártó, who has already visited Russia five times since the start of the war in Ukraine.
On July 2, Orban was in Ukraine, where he met with the country's President Vladimir Zelensky. Then he asked Zelensky to think about a ceasefire and the start of peace negotiations with Moscow.
In an interview with Bloomberg, the Ukrainian president later said that proposals for a ceasefire without an understanding of further steps are not enough for Kyiv. “A ceasefire in itself does not end the war — we have already been through this. The conflict will simply be frozen,” Zelensky added.
From July 1 to December 31, Hungary holds the presidency of the Council of the EU. According to the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, Orban “in no way” represents the European Union during his trip to Moscow, and he does not have the authority to negotiate about Ukraine.