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Hungarian Prime Minister Orban offered Ukraine a “Christmas ceasefire” and a prisoner exchange with Russia

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Oleksandra Opanasenko
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that he had offered Ukraine a "Christmas ceasefire" and a prisoner exchange with Russia — he was refused.

This is how the Hungarian Prime Minister reacted to criticism from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky regarding Orbanʼs call to Russian leader Vladimir Putin today — they talked about the war in Ukraine. Russian propagandists wrote that Putin, in a conversation with Orban, stated "the destructiveness of Kyivʼs line, which excludes the possibility of a settlement."

In response to this call, Zelensky stressed that talks about the war against Ukraine waged by Russia cannot take place without the participation of Kyiv.

"We hope that Viktor Orban will not even call [Bashar] Assad in Moscow. We should not play on our own image at the expense of unity — we should take care of common success. It is unity in Europe that always brings success," Zelensky wrote.

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