Putin again ruled out a ceasefire with Ukraine, saying it would help the “kyiv regime” recover and prepare to strike back. Orbán says contacts are important.
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán acknowledged on Friday after meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow that the positions of Russia and the West are “very far apart” on the war in Ukraine.
Orbán admits after meeting Putin that Moscow and the West are “very far apart” in the war in Ukraine
I wanted to listen and I listened to Putin’s opinion (…) The positions are very far apart, there are many steps to take to get closer to the end of the war, but the most important step was to establish contacts and I will continue to work,” Orbán said in statements to the press on the sidelines of the your surprise visit to the Russian capital, prompting criticism from his European peers.
After a closed-door meeting that lasted more than two and a half hours, Vladimir Putin To return to rule out a ceasefire with Ukraine, saying it would help the “kyiv regime” to recover and prepare to fight back: “Russia is in favour of a complete and definitive end to the conflict.”
The Kremlin leader called for “the complete withdrawal of all Ukrainian troops” from the self-proclaimed pro-Russian People’s Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine and the partially annexed regions of Zaporizhia and Kherson in the south, as well as “other conditions” that will need to be discussed “in sufficient detail” at possible future meetings.
Putin said he saw the visit to Moscow by the prime minister of Hungary, which holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, as a way to try to reestablish dialogue with Brussels, at a time when relations “are at their lowest point“.
Source: Observadora
