According to the agency, when discussing methods of ending the war in Ukraine, Europeans asked Trump to “use their influence” on Orban, blocking Ukraine's entry into the European Union. Therefore, after a meeting in the White House, the US president contacted the Hungarian Prime Minister to discuss why Budapest blocks the relevant negotiations.
The media recalls that Hungary also consistently provided Russia with diplomatic cover and protection against EU sanctions, while at the same time preventing the assistance of Ukraine.
Bloomberg interlocutors did not report whether Orban agreed to listen to the American president. However, according to them, the Hungarian prime minister is allegedly interested in holding the next round of negotiations between Putin and Zelensky in Hungary.
Orban did not confirm the call, and the White House spokeswoman Caroline Livitt on Tuesday refused to report whether Budapest was considered as the venue of the Putin and Zelensky summit. They consider several places for the meeting, the article says.
On August 19, on August 19, on the social network, Facebook published a message about the online publication of the leaders of the EU member countries, initiated by the President of the European Council Antoniu Koshta following the results of the summit in Washington. In his message, Orban, despite Trump's probable call, mentioned Ukraine and excluded its EU membership again.
“It was confirmed that the membership of Ukraine in the European Union does not give any security guarantees, so it is useless and dangerous to connect membership and security guarantees,” he wrote.
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Orban has repeatedly stated that he is against the membership of Ukraine both in NATO and in the EU. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that European integration of Ukraine supports 70% of Hungarians.
On June 8, in an interview with LCI, Orban said that he was not afraid of expanding the Russian-Ukrainian war to Global. “The Russians are too weak for this. They cannot even defeat Ukraine, so they cannot really attack NATO,” he said.
Ukraine was officially invited Take part in the NATO summit in the Hague on June 24–26. According to the Hungarian prime minister, except for his country against the presence of NATO leaders at the meeting of the President of Ukraine, there were allegedly Slovakia, Türkiye and the USA.
On June 26, the Hungarian government announced the final results of the “referendum” to enter Ukraine into the European Union and stated that 95% of the voters had expressed against it. According to Orban, thus Hungary allegedly stopped Ukraine’s entry into the EU.
Orban also stated that Ukraine’s entry into the EU would “draw” Europe into a direct conflict, and no one would supposedly agree to this.
