{"id":52284,"date":"2025-10-17T21:00:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T21:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trump-and-putins-ally-viktor-orban-enthuses-over-planned-ukraine-war-summit-in-hungary\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T21:00:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T21:00:31","slug":"trump-and-putins-ally-viktor-orban-enthuses-over-planned-ukraine-war-summit-in-hungary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trump-and-putins-ally-viktor-orban-enthuses-over-planned-ukraine-war-summit-in-hungary\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and Putin&#8217;s ally Viktor Orb\u00e1n enthuses over planned Ukraine war summit in Hungary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Hungary&#8217;s far-right, nationalist leader Viktor Orb\u00e1n has hailed President Trump&#8217;s announcement that he&#8217;ll hold a second summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, to discuss the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/ukraine-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">war in Ukraine<\/a><\/span>, in Budapest, the Hungarian capital, as &#8220;great news for the peace-loving people of the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Orb\u00e1n is one of the very few European leaders who has kept close ties with Putin since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.<\/p>\n<p>He is also a key ally of Mr. Trump, having built a close relationship with the president over many years, helping to turn himself into <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/cpac-trump-hungary-poland-orban-europe-maga\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">a favorite European figure<\/a><\/span> on the American right.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The planned meeting between the American and Russian presidents is great news for the peace-loving people of the world. We are ready!,&#8221; Orb\u00e1n &#8211; whom the European Union has accused of turning Hungary into an autocracy &#8211; said in a social media post on Thursday. &#8220;Preparations for the USA-Russia peace summit are underway. Hungary is the island of PEACE!&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/09\/15\/f22287dd-ec5f-4cab-a0cf-3f82dadc678d\/thumbnail\/620x447g2\/395758058e40d2f209d84539cb80bd04\/gettyimages-1148899659.jpg#\" alt=\"President Donald Trump Welcomes Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban To The White House \" height=\"447\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/09\/15\/f22287dd-ec5f-4cab-a0cf-3f82dadc678d\/thumbnail\/620x447g2\/395758058e40d2f209d84539cb80bd04\/gettyimages-1148899659.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/09\/15\/f22287dd-ec5f-4cab-a0cf-3f82dadc678d\/thumbnail\/1240x894g2\/6e40feac90bc936e7dc8177ab0156e50\/gettyimages-1148899659.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">President Trump shakes hands with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban during a meeting in the Oval Office on May 13, 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Mark Wilson \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mr. Trump is set to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on Friday following a long phone call he had Thursday with Russia&#8217;s leader. &#8220;I believe great progress was made,&#8221; Mr. Trump wrote Thursday on Truth Social regarding his conversation with Putin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin said in a statement Friday that Orb\u00e1n had spoken with Putin on the phone to express Hungary&#8217;s &#8220;readiness to provide conditions&#8221; for the upcoming summit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The date for the Trump-Putin summit in Budapest has not been confirmed, though Mr. Trump said Thursday that it would likely take place within a couple weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It will be the two leaders&#8217; second bilateral meeting this year, following in-person talks in Alaska in August.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That initial effort by Mr. Trump to end the Ukraine war yielded no tangible results. Putin has so far declined the president&#8217;s urging to hold a three-way meeting with Ukraine&#8217;s Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Meanwhile, the Russian military has continued its aerial bombardment of Ukrainian cities, targeting infrastructure and killing civilians.<\/p>\n<p>Before his announcement on Thursday, President Trump had voiced increasing frustration with Putin&#8217;s intransigence on negotiating an end to the war.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know why he continues with this war,&#8221; Mr. Trump told reporters earlier this week in Washington. &#8220;He just doesn&#8217;t want to end that war.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin, in a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.kremlin.ru\/events\/president\/news\/78237%C2%A0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Thursday statement<\/a> attributed to Putin aide Yury Ushakov, said the Russian leader had given Mr. Trump during their phone call &#8220;a detailed assessment of the current situation,&#8221; which included noting that on the ground in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine, &#8220;the Russian Armed Forces hold full strategic initiative along the entire line of contact.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Why Ukraine may be disappointed by Hungary as a summit venue<\/h2>\n<p>Orb\u00e1n&#8217;s government has often taken an adversarial stance toward Zelenskyy and the Ukrainian cause since Russia launched its full-scale invasion three years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While Hungary is a member of both the European Union and the U.S.-led NATO alliance, Orb\u00e1n has been a fierce critic of Europe&#8217;s financial and military support for Ukraine&#8217;s efforts to repel the Russian invasion. Hungary has halted all sales of weapons to Ukraine since the war began, and Orb\u00e1n&#8217;s government has also prohibited weapons from Ukraine&#8217;s Western partners from transiting through the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Orb\u00e1n posted a promotional video on social media declaring that &#8220;Hungary will follow its own path, protect its sovereignty, refuse to send its money to Ukraine, and remain a haven of peace. We will not pay for wars that are not ours!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tension between Orb\u00e1n and Zelenskyy has escalated dramatically in recent months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Budapest has fiercely opposed Ukraine&#8217;s bid to join the European Union \u2014 a move Kyiv sees as a vital step in protecting itself against the potential threat of future Russian aggression.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Under EU rules, new states can only be admitted with the unanimous consent of all its existing members.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hungary has no moral obligation to support Ukraine&#8217;s EU accession. No country has ever blackmailed its way into the European Union \u2014 and it won&#8217;t happen this time either,&#8221; Orb\u00e1n said earlier this month. &#8220;The EU Treaty leaves no room for ambiguity: membership is decided by the member states, unanimously.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy was quoted in May by the Ukrainian Interfax news agency as calling Hungary&#8217;s opposition to Ukraine&#8217;s bid &#8220;dangerous&#8221; for the EU, &#8220;because that&#8217;s the sovereign choice of another country. Just as we have no right to interfere in Hungary&#8217;s affairs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kyiv has also accused Hungary of illegally flying drones into Ukrainian territory. In September, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha posted a map on social media of an alleged Hungarian drone incursion with the caption: &#8220;Our Armed Forces have gathered all of the necessary evidence, and we are still waiting for Hungary to explain what this object did in our airspace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Orb\u00e1n appeared to acknowledge the incursion late last month in an interview on a podcast produced by his far-right Fidesz party, while also questioning Ukraine&#8217;s independence, echoing a talking point often promoted by the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s suppose they flew a few meters in there [Ukraine], and so what?&#8221; Orb\u00e1n said, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/hungarys-orban-says-ukraine-is-not-sovereign-drone-row-deepens-2025-09-29\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reuters news agency<\/a>. &#8220;Ukraine is not an independent country. Ukraine is not a sovereign country. Ukraine is financed by us, the West gives it funds, weapons.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sybiha, Ukraine&#8217;s Foreign Minister, said in a social media post that Orb\u00e1n&#8217;s remarks showed he was &#8220;intoxicated by Russian propaganda.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Hungary has participated in imposing several rounds of EU sanctions against Russia since the war started, Orb\u00e1n has consistently called for greater economic relief for the Kremlin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s time to talk about sanctions! Did they bring the war to an end? No. Did they cripple the [Russian] economy? No. Did Europe manage to replace Russian energy from other affordable sources? No,&#8221; Orb\u00e1n said in January. &#8220;The sanctions engineered by the Brussels bureaucrats achieved one thing: they destroyed the competitiveness of the European economy.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Budapest has defied other EU nations&#8217; efforts to wean themselves off a years-long reliance on Russian oil and gas \u2014 despite repeated calls from both Mr. Trump and Zelenskyy to do so to squeeze Putin&#8217;s ability to fund the war.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Research from the Center for the Study of Democracy, an independent policy think tank, shows Hungary has actually increased its reliance on Russian energy over the past three years. Hungary&#8217;s purchases of Russian crude oil increased from 61% of its total imports pre-invasion, to 86% in 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/energyandcleanair.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/CSD_CREA_HU_SK_05_25.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the study<\/a> showed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Orban is a key Trump ally\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>While Hungary is not perceived as friendly to Ukraine, President Trump will arrive to a warm welcome in Budapest if the summit goes ahead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Orb\u00e1n was the first and only EU leader to publicly endorse Mr. Trump&#8217;s first successful bid for the U.S. presidency in 2016, and the two have had warm ties ever since.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Orb\u00e1n, who according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/europe\/central-asia\/hungary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Human Rights Watch<\/a> has used his party&#8217;s supermajority in the Hungarian parliament to undermine the independence of the country&#8217;s judiciary, crack down on independent media, demonize migrants and discriminate against LGBTQ people, was also effusive in praising Mr. Trump&#8217;s return to the Oval Office in January.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Trump tsunami swept through the entire world,&#8221; Orb\u00e1n said earlier this year. &#8220;It gave back hope to the world. We are no longer suffocating in the woke sea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/news\/en\/press-room\/20220909IPR40137\/meps-hungary-can-no-longer-be-considered-a-full-democracy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">EU said<\/a> Hungary, under Orb\u00e1n&#8217;s leadership, could no longer be considered a &#8220;full democracy,&#8221; calling it a &#8220;hybrid regime of electoral autocracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump has also prolifically praised Orb\u00e1n&#8217;s strongman leadership, calling him &#8220;a great man and a very special person.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     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