Orban Calls Russia’s Putin on Ukraine After Trump Meeting
- Hungarian premier is on his latest self-styled ‘peace mission’
- Orban wrapping up EU presidency, to be followed by Poland
Viktor Orban and Vladimir Putin in Moscow in July, in a photo released by Russian state media.
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban called Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, extending his latest flurry of diplomatic freelancing around the war in Ukraine following a meeting with US President-elect Donald Trump.
Orban discussed ways of resolving the conflict with Putin in the phone conversation, including the Hungarian premier’s “contacts with a number of Western leaders” on the matter, the Kremlin said in a statement.