Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban met with future US presidential candidate Donald Trump to discuss a “peace mission” to Ukraine. The Hungarian prime minister posted this on his Facebook page.
Orban visited former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, which he called “the next stop on his peace mission.”
“Meeting with President Trump about peace. The good news is that he will do it.” Orban said.
Separately, the Hungarian prime minister posted a video showing him arriving in Florida and meeting with the former US president.
On his side, Trump thanked Orban on Truthsocial and said that peace should come as soon as possible.
“Thank you, Viktor. There must be peace, and soon. Too many people have died in a war that should never have started,” Trump said.
Earlier, the media reported that Trump did not ask Orban to lay the groundwork for any peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia, and that the Hungarian prime minister’s visit to Florida to see the future Republican presidential candidate was more of an informal meeting.
Earlier, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said that if Donald Trump wins the US presidential election, the “chance for peace” in Ukraine could increase.
According to media reports, to implement these ideas, Trump’s team is allegedly seriously considering a “deal with the Kremlin,” which would mean Ukraine and Georgia’s refusal to join NATO and Ukraine’s territorial concessions.
Viktor Orban also paid a visit this week to Russian president Putin in Moscow, and Chinese president Xi Jinping in China.
Meanwhile, the EU is talking about punishing Hungary and the government of Viktor Orban for his international activities not approved on the EU level, including its purported “mediation” to end the Russia-Ukraine war.
Viktor Orban is using the status of the European Presidency without the consent of other EU members, and this has begun to irritate Hungary’s European allies. Hungary’s presidency of the EU Council, which began on July 1, is supposed to last for 6 months.
Viktor Orban’s diplomatic freelancing with Putin on his self-assigned trip to Moscow contradict the EU’s treaties, according to the EU’s legal service, The FT reported.
Sources in Brussels are already talking about a possible punishment for Hungary. It may come in the form of a “soft threat” to Orban at a meeting of EU ambassadors, and then at a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council in July.
After Orban’s visit to Moscow and praising Putin’s “peace proposals,” Russian troops launched a massive missile attack on Ukraine, including a hit on a children’s hospital in Kyiv.
