Orban, during a conversation with the media, repeated his narrative that Ukraine will not be able to defeat the aggressor country of the Russian Federation on the battlefield.
When the Hungarian prime minister finished his speech, Trump turned to him: “Are you saying that Ukraine cannot win this war?”
“You know, miracles happen,” Orban replied.
Trump agreed: “Yes, that’s right.”
Context
Trump received Orban at the White House on the evening of November 7 (Kyiv time).
The head of the Ukrainian state, Vladimir Zelensky, assumed that Orban would tell Trump that the illegitimate Russian President Vladimir Putin supposedly wants to end the war against Ukraine. “He will say that Ukraine is losing the war, because his rhetoric is no different from Russia’s. That’s been a long time ago. This, I would say, is Russia’s living mail to the United States,” the Ukrainian president said at a briefing on November 7.
