Ukraine's Foreign Minister hopes Hungarian PM at least washed his hands after handshake with Putin
Dmytro Kuleba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, has commented on the meeting between Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Russian President Vladimir Putin in China, during which the former called the Russian war of aggression a "military operation". Source: Kuleba in an interview for France 24, as reported by European Pravda Quote: "I hope that he [Orban] has at least washed and disinfected his hands after a handshake with Putin."
Advertisement:Background:
- Putin and Orban met in China on 17 October.
It was the first meeting between Putin and an EU member state leader in over a year and the first meeting with a NATO state leader since the beginning of the full-scale war.
- In April 2022, Karl Nehammer, chancellor of Austria, which is not a part of NATO, came to Moscow on a visit.
- Due to Putin's talks with Orban, NATO ambassadors in Budapest held a meeting amid the concern of the NATO allies about the rapprochement of Hungary and Russia.
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