Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky criticized Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban for trying to “mediate” in achieving peace in Ukraine, emphasizing that he has no leverage over the aggressor state.
Zelensky said this at a meeting of the All-Ukrainian Congress of Local and Regional Authorities on December 17.
Zelensky emphasized that Ukraine is a strong country and showed this on the battlefield during all of Putin’s aggression.
Does anyone else in Europe have this experience now? No one has. Does Orban have such an army? No. How will he put pressure on Putin? An anecdote, a smile? Let him leave it,” he said.
Separately, Zelensky noted that Ukraine requires direct relations with the United States without intermediaries.
Prime Minister Orban, who wants, you know, “somehow there, somewhere there…” will not work. “I won’t let him and people like him in,” added the President of Ukraine, emphasizing that we are talking specifically about the Prime Minister of Hungary, and not about the Hungarian people supporting Ukraine.
Previously uneasy relations between Kiev and Budapest worsened after Viktor Orban made a phone call to Vladimir Putin last week. After this, Orban said that he supposedly proposed that Ukraine establish a ceasefire and a large-scale exchange of prisoners of war for Christmas, but Vladimir Zelensky allegedly rejected this idea.
Then the Ukrainian president expressed the hope that Orban “won’t at least call Assad to Moscow to listen to his watchdog lectures.”
Source: Racurs
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