– Viktor Orban regularly engages in contacts with Russians and clearly has good relations with the president Donald Trump. I hope the whole world would like to see some kind of stop to the carnage that is taking place in the east Ukrainy – said Michael Waltz in an interview for CBS News.
The US is considering Hungary's proposal. “Donald Trump has made it clear”
In the opinion of an American politician, the fighting taking place beyond our eastern border resembles World War I. – It's a meat grinder for humans. President Trump is very concernedy the ongoing carnage. Where is this all going? – continued the Republican.
Waltz was asked about the prime minister's idea Hungarian Viktor Orbanwho proposed “holiday truce” – ceasefire for Christmas Christmas and New Year.
– We have to stop the fighting. If some kind of ceasefire this is the first step, we'll take a look at exactly what this means – said the American congressman. – President Trump made it clearthat he wants this war to end – added the politician.
The future security adviser also emphasized that all initiatives must be agreed with by January 20 administration Joe Bidena. On this day, the new president will be inaugurated United States.
Viktor Orban with a proposal for a “Christmas truce”. Kyiv reacted
Viktor Orban stated a few days ago that he proposed a ceasefire to Ukraine and an exchange of prisoners large-scale wars due to the upcoming Christmas. Then the Hungarian Prime Minister announced that Volodymyr Zelensky he rejected this idea.
Meanwhile, advisor to the President of Ukraine, Dmytro Lytvyn, denied Orban's claims. According to him Budapest “didn't talk about anything” with Kievand – as he noted – Ukraine did not authorize Hungary “to do anything”, especially to conduct this type of negotiations.
Source: CBS News, Unian