Ukrainian president condemns Hungarian prime minister’s unilateral ‘peace mission’ to Moscow

Volodymyr Zelenskiy has taken aim at the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, accusing him of betraying fellow European leaders after Orbán’s recent “peace mission” to Moscow.

The Ukrainian president kicked off the European Political Community summit at Blenheim Palace on Thursday with an emotional speech in which he made veiled but repeated references to Orbán’s recent attempts to get close to Moscow.

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He told the session: “We have maintained unity in Europe by acting together, which means that Putin has missed his primary targets … This is our advantage, but it remains an advantage only as long as we are united.”

Referring to Putin, he said: “He may try to approach you, or go to some of your partners individually, trying to tempt or pressure you to blackmail you so that one of you betrays the rest. We keep our unity.”

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  • dubyakayEnglish
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    2 months ago

    To be specific, voters that are loyal to him are also those coincidentally that are poor, undereducated, not from Budapest or one of the other major cities and also consume terrestrial television and radio.