Hungarian leader Viktor Orban has proposed a meeting between Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin in Budapest. However, the idea has angered Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who has already made his position clear.
Points of attention
- The opposition party in Hungary and media outlets have also weighed in on the proposed meeting, emphasizing Orban's absence from recent diplomatic negotiations and potential implications for peace talks.
- The ongoing debate underscores the challenging dynamics and differing perspectives surrounding the potential meeting between Zelensky and Putin, reflecting wider geopolitical tensions and historical sensitivities.
Tusk against Zelenskyy and Putin meeting in Budapest
Budapest? Not everyone may remember this, but in 1994 Ukraine already received guarantees of territorial integrity from the US, Russia and Great Britain. In Budapest. Maybe I'm superstitious, but this time I would try to find a different place.
Donald Tusk
Prime Minister of Poland
It recently became known that the White House is actively considering Hungary as a possible venue for the Zelenskyy-Putin summit.
Donald Tusk believes that holding negotiations in the Hungarian capital would be a historical irony.
Some media outlets claimed that the Russian dictator offered to meet with the Ukrainian president in Moscow, but he refused.
Against the backdrop of recent events, the leader of Hungary's largest opposition party, Tisza, Peter Magyar, appealed to Viktor Orban to organize a meeting between the leaders of Ukraine and Russia in Budapest.
He separately noted that the Hungarian Prime Minister did not participate in the negotiations between European leaders and Donald Trump at the White House.
Yesterday, one "fighter for peace" was sorely missing from the table. But he was on vacation. Or he simply wasn't invited...," the oppositionist ironically noted.
