Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a meeting in the Kremlin with the Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban, who arrived in Moscow. This was reported by the Kremlin website.
“I understand that this time you arrived not only as our long -standing partner, but also as a presiding council in the European Council. We will, I hope, will have the opportunity to exchange thoughts on the construction of bilateral relations in this difficult situation and, of course, talk On the prospects for the development of the largest European crisis, I mean in the Ukrainian direction, ”said the Russian leader.
Putin noted that he knows about Orban’s trip to Kyiv on July 2. “Here we arrived here in order to discuss all the nuances of the situation that has developed in the Kiev direction, on the Ukrainian direction. I am at your disposal. You probably know about my speech before the leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs recently in Moscow. Our positions regarding a possible peaceful Settlement, and of course, I am ready to discuss this, telling about some nuances.
Earlier, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced that he arrived in Moscow to continue his “peaceful mission.”
“The peaceful mission continues, the second stop is Moscow,” he wrote on social networks after arriving in the Russian capital.
July 2, the Hungarian prime minister visited Kyiv, where he met with the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky.
Meanwhile, the EU leadership ambiguously perceived Orban’s peaceful initiative.
“The Rotation Hungarian chairmanship in the EU Council does not have a mandate for contacts with Russia on behalf of the European Union,” wrote the head of the European Council Charles Michelle on the social network x.
In turn, the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrel, said that “the Prime Minister of Hungary is in no way representing the EU.”
“Politics of peace will not stop Putin. Only unity and determination will lay the way to a comprehensive, fair and strong world in Ukraine,” the head of the European Commission Ursula von Lyayen also wrote on the Coce of the X.
Hungary for the next six months presides on the EU Council.