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Zelenskyy, Magyar, Tusk, and Costa confer around a table during an EU meeting, with one official in black standing at the center.

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Hungary swapped its pro-Russian prime minister. Yet it is still slowing Ukraine’s path to the EU.

Hungary has allowed two stages of Ukraine’s EU talks to open while holding up the other four. Péter Magyar is no Viktor Orbán, but years of anti-Ukraine politics might still make blocking Kyiv safer than helping it.

byDaniel Thomas

Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar speaks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy before an EU leaders’ meeting in Brussels.

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Hungary votes to remove Orbán-loyal president as Magyar dismantles Fidesz system

The constitutional amendment targets Tamás Sulyok and caps lawmakers’ tenure at 12 years. Magyar’s break with Orbán remains sharper at home than on Ukraine.

byDaniel Thomas

voted out facing investigators orbán could reach un cover sources say · post visit vice president jd vance rally support viktor 7 2026 budapest hungary beata zawrzel/reporter (from left) orban

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Voted out and facing investigators, Orbán could reach for UN cover, sources say

Hungary's new government has vowed to probe his regime, and a senior UN role's immunity would blunt that threat, VSquare reports.

byYuri Zoria

hungary's anti-corruption watchdog says orbán's former inner circle prosecuted over billions missing eu funds · post hungarian then-prime minister viktor orban prior delivering speech during spring session parliament budapest hungary

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Money Matters

€90 billion for Ukraine—two-thirds of the 2026–27 budget gap—clears Brussels Wednesday

EU ambassadors vote Wednesday on the final step. Sanctions and military aid remain blocked.

byPeeter Helme

eu finally breaks russian gas full ban lng set 2026 · post worker walks near gazprom-operated slavyanskaya compressor station starting point nord stream 2 offshore natural pipeline ust-luga leningrad oblast

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Druzhba pipeline restart this week after Russian attack could unlock €90 billion in EU aid for Ukraine

Hungary's precondition is being met, funding should follow.

byOlena Mukhina

Future Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar. Source: magyarpeterMP

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Future Hungarian PM Magyar makes first statements on EU’s €90 billion loan for Ukraine

The loan, not the aid, was blocked by Viktor Orban's government.

byOlena Mukhina

hungary robbed $82 million ukraine's state bank now has fabricated subtitles toilet-office joke video justify · post fake hungarian mentioning corruption money youtube/navgovhu background cash gold bars seized oschadbank's convoy

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International

Hungary robbed $82 million from Ukraine’s state bank, now it has fabricated subtitles on a toilet-office joke video to justify it

They took a year-old private video from an illegally seized phone of couriers joking about preparing documents in a public restroom and added a phrase about "corruption money" that was never spoken to the subtitles.

byYuri Zoria

fico joins orbán demanding eu lift russian energy sanctions — week before hungary’s election could end orbán’s 16-year rule · post slovak prime minister robert visiting hungarian viktor budapest 2024

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International

Fico joins Orbán in demanding the EU lift Russian energy sanctions — a week before Hungary’s election that could end Orbán’s 16-year rule

After a call with Orbán on 4 April, Slovakia's PM claimed Brussels must immediately reopen dialogue with Russia and restore Druzhba pipeline flows — revenues that directly fund Moscow's war against Ukraine.

byYuri Zoria

szijjártó told lavrov he'd removed 72 russian entities eu sanctions — asked russia help find arguments removing more investigation reveals · post foreign minister sergei pins order friendship hungarian péter

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International

Szijjártó told Russia’s deputy minister he’d removed 72 entities from EU sanctions — then asked Moscow to write his arguments for removing more

The detail, buried in leaked transcripts from a call with Russia's deputy energy minister, reveals the full scope of Hungary's collusion: not just delisting oligarchs on request, but seeking Kremlin-authored justifications for Budapest's own EU lobbying.

byYuri Zoria

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Money Matters

Ukraine runs out of war funding in June—blocked from outside, inside, and below

Hungary is blocking billions from outside. Parliament from inside. And the government tried to fire the anti-corruption official the EU requires to stay.

byPeeter Helme

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EU summit backs Ukraine’s €90 billion loan and opens all accession clusters — but Orbán and Fico still block the money

25 EU leaders formally endorsed Ukraine's loan disbursement by early April and invited the Council to open all EU accession clusters without delay. Hungary and Slovakia declined to support the conclusions.

byYuri Zoria

russia faked ukrainian phone numbers threaten hungarians ukraine — help orbán win hungary's election kyiv says · post local hungarian eu flags city hall building zakarpattia oblast's town berehove home

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Russia faked Ukrainian phone numbers to threaten Hungarians in Ukraine — to help Orbán win Hungary’s election, Kyiv says

Callers impersonating Ukrainian police demanded ethnic Hungarians leave Ukraine and threatened violence, but the SBU traced every call to Russian territory.

byYuri Zoria

Rear view of an Oschadbank armored cash-in-transit vehicle with doors open and cargo compartment empty, returned by Hungary on 12 March 2026 with documented equipment damage.

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Hungary returns Oschadbank’s armored vehicles damaged—cash and gold remain seized

Budapest handed back the collectors' cars with documented equipment failures—while keeping $40 million and €35 million in cash and 9 kg of gold.

byDaniel Thomas

Péter Magyar, leader of Hungary's opposition Tisza party, speaks at a press conference in front of a European Union flag.

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Hungary’s opposition Tisza still leads the election, but the gap is closing—and a win may not be enough for Ukraine

New polling trims Tisza's advantage to 14 points. What a Magyar victory would—and wouldn't—mean for Ukraine.

byDaniel Thomas

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Fico: “Slovakia is ready to take over the baton from Hungary, if necessary” — on blocking EU’s Ukraine loan and Russia sanctions

The current go-to blocker of both the loan and sanctions is Hungarian PM Orbán, who may lose the April election.

byYuri Zoria

3 minute read

International

Putin sends election fixers to Budapest to keep Orbán’s Kremlin veto alive

A GRU-linked cell embedded in the Russian Embassy is running Moscow's Moldova playbook on Hungarian soil—and the stakes for Ukraine could not be higher

byDaniel Thomas

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Slovakia can’t legally cut power to Ukraine under EU rules—any blackout move would break ENTSO-E deal

While ENTSO-E rules block legal cutoffs, experts warn Bratislava could still attempt political pressure that plays into Russia’s strategy of energy blackmail.

byOlena Mukhina

Novozybkivska oil pumping station of the Druzhba pipeline

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Money Matters

Why is the EU asking Ukraine to repair a pipeline it plans to shut down?

The Commission’s own roadmap commits to ending Russian crude imports by 2027.

byPeeter Helme

3 minute read

International

Orbán fires back at Zelenskyy’s “slap” comment, doubles down on pro-Kremlin stance

Hungarian PM accuses Ukrainian president of "carefully chosen insults" while repeating calls to lift sanctions on Russia

byDaniel Thomas

zelenskyy vows block russian oil hungary — hungary’s mol says can already go 80% non-russian · post druzhba pipeline aspeniaonlineit druzhba-pipeline-map ukraine’s president said halting exports inevitable meanwhile after had

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Zelenskyy vows to block Russian oil to Hungary — Hungary’s MOL says it can already go 80% non-Russian

Hungary’s top refiner made the claim just hours before Prime Minister Viktor Orban met with US President Donald Trump to seek sanctions relief.

byYuri Zoria

Viktor Orbán

Hungary swapped its pro-Russian prime minister. Yet it is still slowing Ukraine’s path to the EU.

Hungary votes to remove Orbán-loyal president as Magyar dismantles Fidesz system

Voted out and facing investigators, Orbán could reach for UN cover, sources say

€90 billion for Ukraine—two-thirds of the 2026–27 budget gap—clears Brussels Wednesday

Druzhba pipeline restart this week after Russian attack could unlock €90 billion in EU aid for Ukraine

Future Hungarian PM Magyar makes first statements on EU’s €90 billion loan for Ukraine

Hungary robbed $82 million from Ukraine’s state bank, now it has fabricated subtitles on a toilet-office joke video to justify it

Fico joins Orbán in demanding the EU lift Russian energy sanctions — a week before Hungary’s election that could end Orbán’s 16-year rule

Szijjártó told Russia’s deputy minister he’d removed 72 entities from EU sanctions — then asked Moscow to write his arguments for removing more

Ukraine runs out of war funding in June—blocked from outside, inside, and below

EU summit backs Ukraine’s €90 billion loan and opens all accession clusters — but Orbán and Fico still block the money

Russia faked Ukrainian phone numbers to threaten Hungarians in Ukraine — to help Orbán win Hungary’s election, Kyiv says

Hungary returns Oschadbank’s armored vehicles damaged—cash and gold remain seized

Hungary’s opposition Tisza still leads the election, but the gap is closing—and a win may not be enough for Ukraine

Fico: “Slovakia is ready to take over the baton from Hungary, if necessary” — on blocking EU’s Ukraine loan and Russia sanctions

Putin sends election fixers to Budapest to keep Orbán’s Kremlin veto alive

Slovakia can’t legally cut power to Ukraine under EU rules—any blackout move would break ENTSO-E deal

Why is the EU asking Ukraine to repair a pipeline it plans to shut down?

Orbán fires back at Zelenskyy’s “slap” comment, doubles down on pro-Kremlin stance

Zelenskyy vows to block Russian oil to Hungary — Hungary’s MOL says it can already go 80% non-Russian

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