Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has criticised Budapest’s “peacekeeping” declarations as unrealistic and urged Hungarian officials to avoid abusing the topic of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
Source: Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry, as reported by Europea…
Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó has criticised his EU counterparts for their lack of support for Viktor Orbán’s Christmas truce proposal at a foreign ministers’ meeting on 16 December.
Source: European Pravda, citing Telex, a Hungarian news …
Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó has said he prevented Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and Vasily Nebenzia, Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations, from being included on an EU sanctions list.
Source: Szi…
On 14 December, the Georgian authorities escalated the country’s political conflict by holding “presidential elections.”
Neither the Georgian opposition nor the current president, Salome Zourabichvili, recognise the legitimacy of these elections.
The …
EU energy ministers will meet on 16 December to discuss the future of the energy sector, focusing on concerns over energy prices and the expiration of the transit agreement between Ukraine and Russia, which has been key to Russian gas supplies to Europ…
Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Russian leader Vladimir Putin, repeated that the latter had supported the Hungarian Prime Minister’s initiative for a Christmas ceasefire in conversations with Viktor Orbán but Ukraine had allegedly not agreed to it.
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Mike Waltz, Donald Trump’s nominee for National Security Adviser, has said that the world would welcome “some form of cessation” of hostilities in Ukraine, referring to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s proposal for a “Christmas truce”.
Source: W…
The Ukrainian side declined to arrange a phone call between Viktor Orbán and Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss the Hungarian ceasefire proposal.
Source: Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó live on Kossuth radio station, writes MTI, as reported by E…
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Kęstutis Budrys has defended Lithuanian athlete Kornelija Dūdaitė, who was disqualified for wearing a T-shirt calling to “Make Russia small again” in protest against the participation of Russian athletes.
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Hungary “did everything it could” when it initiated a Christmas ceasefire and a large-scale prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said.
Source: European Pravda with reference to Telex, a Hungarian independe…