Earlier on Wednesday, the Kremlin issued a press release confirming that the telephone name had been initiated by Budapest. “Vladimir Putin had a phone dialog with Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán on the initiative of the Hungarian aspect,” the Kremlin stated.
According to the Kremlin, Orbán expressed curiosity in “selling a joint search” for political and diplomatic methods to resolve the battle in Ukraine, whereas Putin stated Kyiv is stopping “the potential of a peaceable settlement of the battle.”
The two leaders additionally mentioned power and financial cooperation, in addition to “the tense state of affairs within the Middle East area within the context of the current occasions in Syria,” the Kremlin stated.
Orbán’s telephone name with Putin comes solely two days after his assembly with United States President-elect Donald Trump and billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida on Monday.
However, in response to Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov, the Hungarian chief didn’t ship any messages from Trump, and he additionally denied that Orbán and Putin mentioned a doable assembly sooner or later.
The Hungarian prime minister is the second European chief to carry a telephone name with the Russian president within the final month. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz additionally spoke with Putin on the telephone on Nov. 15.
Orbán was additionally the primary EU chief to fulfill with Putin in Moscow in July, shortly after assuming the EU presidency, regardless of Western efforts to isolate the Russian chief.
Csongor Körömi contributed reporting.
