Breaking – Viktor Orbán arrives in Moscow, continues ‘peace mission’ with talks with Putin
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has arrived in Moscow as part of his “peace mission”, the prime minister’s press chief said.
Viktor Orbán in Moscow
Orbán is scheduled to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin during his visit, Bertalan Havasi told MTI.
Shortly after his arrival, Viktor Orbán posted the visit on his official Facebook page, with the following caption:
“Moscow after Kyiv. The second stage of the peace mission.”
According to Telex, shortly after 9 AM on Friday morning, the Airbus A-319 government plane that usually carries Prime Minister Viktor Orbán took off from Budapest. The PM travelled to the Russian capital a few days after meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv.
Orbán does not represent the EU in Moscow
The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy issued a separate statement on Friday morning saying that Viktor Orbán will visit Moscow only in the framework of bilateral relations between Hungary and Russia, and will not represent the EU in any way in Moscow, Telex writes.
As we wrote on Thursday, the President of the European Council Charles Michel said on X (formerly 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.”
Donald Tusk, Poland’s prime minister, took to the social media site to write: “The rumours about your visit to Moscow cannot be true @PM_ViktorOrban, or can they?”
FM Szijjártó is also in Russia
According to HVG, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó also travelled to the Russian capital. The news site reported that a few minutes after 7 AM, the Dassault Falcon 7x aircraft, registration 606 of the Hungarian Defence Forces, usually used by the Foreign Minister, took off from Budapest Airport. The radar image shows that the luxury jet took off for Slovakia and then flew via Belarus to Russia, landing in Moscow shortly after 9 AM. Szijjártó posted on Facebook after arriving in the Russian capital:
“Arriving in Moscow. Another step for peace!”
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