7 JULY 2024
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said that Russian leader Vladimir Putin is not interested in reaching a ceasefire in order to lay the groundwork for more substantive peace talks.
Source: Viktor Orbán in an interview with Die Weltwoche, a Russia-supporting Swiss weekly
Details: Orbán was asked how Putin responded to the three questions he promised to ask him during their meeting.
Orbán said Putin told him that true negotiations are impossible without the involvement of both sides and, hinting at the Global Peace Summit organised by Ukraine in June, that anything that’s done without [both of them] doesn’t matter.
Putin also told Orbán that Russia responded to Ukraine’s initial proposals in spring 2022, and its position has not changed since. He added that Moscow was prepared to continue talks on the same terms.
Orbán also asked Putin what he thinks about reaching a ceasefire with Ukraine ahead of launching more substantive talks.
“He said he doesn’t have high expectations regarding this. Zelenskyy said that he doesn’t have high expectations because the Russians would use it against Ukraine. Putin [said] that Ukrainians would use this pause against Russia. But I said: ‘Let’s think about it, and I get your arguments,’” Orbán said.
He also said he considers himself “the only Western leader who can simultaneously talk to both Kyiv and Moscow” because everyone else “has created a situation in which they can’t directly contact the two key players”. According to Orbán, he continues to maintain contact with Russia because he is looking for “the fastest and shortest path to ending the war”.
In this interview, Orbán also said that he had concealed his plans to visit Moscow from his Western allies for as long as he could and promised more “surprise meetings“.
Background:
- Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that after his visits to Moscow and Kyiv, he realised that the positions of both sides regarding the war of aggression unleashed by Russia “are very far apart”.
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“Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said that Russian leader Vladimir Putin is not interested in reaching a ceasefire in order to lay the groundwork for more substantive peace talks.”
The cockroach king won’t agree to a cease fire as long as he has meat to throw into the inferno he has started. Just like Adolf in his bunker while Berlin was burning, he will also believe in a final victory.
Oh wow…Orbán is the only one who can negotiate a ceasefire. How about if Orbán negotiates his drop dead scenario and give this world a break.
It’s all in the script, I believe.
If Orban was serious he would tell Vladolf what he told everyone else, that Vladolf invaded and the quickest resolution would be to reverse what he alone did.
Orban is only serious about Transcarpathia.
And that is ridiculous. When I was down there I didn’t see or sense any animosity. There are signs in both languages and even museums with Hungarian displays. The Carpathian residents I’ve talked to have a fierce independence so it seems to me, a politician would do well to just leave them alone.
On a side note I remember one place I went to they had a an old wooden hot tub over flames and filled with herbs and pine branches. Their tradition. is you sit in the hot bath and then dunk yourself in the cold creek in the back. The guy said no American ever did it before so I was the first. He guaranteed me good health afterwards 😉
Another guy told me an American soldier stopped by his bar after WW2 and gave him the recipe for grits. I had to pretend I liked it, lol.
“Zelenskyy said that he doesn’t have high expectations because the Russians would use it against Ukraine. Putin [said] that Ukrainians would use this pause against Russia.”
Orban’s strategy seems quite clear. Create confusion and put the aggressor and the attacked on the same footing. It’s pitiful and criminal.
Certainly, there are those who have limited intellect and are easily confused by such primitive attempts as this fat fascist is attempting, but anyone else sees right through it.