In a soft-focus talk with German host Mathias Döpfner, Orbán presents himself as Trump’s ally and would-be peacemaker while echoing Kremlin lines about Ukraine, sanctions, and a “failing” European Union.
A 2.5-hour phone conversation between the two presidents resulted in a Budapest meeting plan—and Trump's swift retreat from supplying Ukraine with weapons that could strike Moscow.
Hungary has blocked Ukrainian news portals in what officials call "mirror measures" following Kyiv's September ban on Hungarian sites Origo and Demokrata
Hungary's Viktor Orban rejected Ukraine's European Union membership bid 25 July, instead proposing "strategic cooperation" while describing Kyiv as destined to remain a "buffer state" bordering Russia