After meeting Donald Trump, Viktor Orban called Vladimir Putin

“There was a detailed exchange of views on Ukrainian issues,” the Kremlin said in a statement on Wednesday. Orban – as reported by the president's press service Russia – “expressed interest in promoting a joint search for a political and diplomatic solution to the crisis, including his contacts with many Western leaders.”

Vladimir Putin “presented fundamental assessments of the current development of the situation around Ukraine and the destructive line of the regime in Kiev, which still excludes the possibility of a peaceful solution to the conflict,” reads the statement from Russia, which attacked Ukraine.

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The BBC's Russian section recalled that Orban had previously met the president-elect USA Donald Trumpwho repeatedly assured during the election campaign that he would end it within 24 hours war in Ukraine.

“Trump did not explain exactly how he proposes to end the war, but Western politicians and experts fear that he intends to force the authorities in Kiev to make territorial concessions or freeze the conflict,” the BBC said.

Orban, considered an ally of Putin, traveled to Moscow in July this year right after visiting Kiev, where he appeared for the first time since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. In a conversation with President Volodymyr Zelensky, Orban raised the topic of a possible ceasefire and the start of peace talks.

Leading European Union politicians have distanced themselves from Orban's July visit to Russia NATO. The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that Hungary decided on Prime Minister Orban's visit to Moscow without consultation or coordination with Kiev.