BREAKING – Confirmed: PM Orbán meets Putin in Moscow on Friday!

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Photo: Facebook/Orbán Viktor

PM Viktor Orbán was in Moscow in September 2022, attending the funeral of Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev. A Hungarian investigative journalist and several media outlets learnt from independent sources that the prime minister will travel again to Moscow to meet Putin.

PM Orbán travels to Moscow on Friday

This comes after an Orbán-Zelensky summit in Kyiv this week. The two leaders settled the conflicting issues between the two countries, based on the official communiqué, including even the state of the Transcarpathian Hungarians. However, Zelensky rejected Orbán’s ceasefire plan, saying that a ceasefire would only allow the Russians to gather new forces and continue their attack in the future.

Orbán now plans to travel to Moscow tomorrow to meet President Putin. The first one writing about the visit was Szabolcs Panyi, a Hungarian investigative journalist this afternoon. VSquare and Direkt 36 confirmed that information with the help of independent Central European sources. Based on their information, FM Szijjártó will accompany the prime minister on his journey. Szijjártó talked on the phone while Orbán negotiated with President Zelensky this week.

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The two leaders in Budapest before Russia’s full-scale attack. Photo: FB

Press chief Bertalan Havasi or other government officials did not confirm reports of the visit, but some European leaders find it a bad idea.

EU leaders shocked

President of the European Council Charles Michel said on X (Twitter) that the EU’s rotating presidency “has no mandate to engage with Russia on behalf of the EU.” He added that the European Council’s standpoint concerning the issue was clear: “Russia is the aggressor, Ukraine is the victim. No discussions about Ukraine can take place without Ukraine.”

Mr Michel was not the only one posting on Twitter following the news about the journey. Donald Tusk, Poland’s prime minister, wrote only one question: “The rumours about your visit to Moscow cannot be true @PM_ViktorOrban, or can they?”

According to Radio Free Europe (RFE), an anonymous EU official said Orbán did not inform the EU about his planned trip to Moscow. The visit was confirmed by a Hungarian government source to the RFE.

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