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This meeting is very explosive! Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban flew to Moscow on Friday to meet with warmonger Vladimir Putin.
His mission: to ensure that Russian oil continues to flow into his country, even as the EU wants to reduce energy imports from Russia as much as possible.
Supplies from Russia are "the basis of Hungary's energy supply and will remain so in the future," Orban said in his meeting with Kremlin leader Putin in Moscow.
Orban repeatedly denies to Western media that he is a friend of Russia; after all, as a young rebel leader in 1989, he helped drive the Soviet army out of his country. But his policies now tell a different story.
Orban repeatedly denies in Western media that he is a friend of Russia; after all, as a young rebel against the regime in 1989, he played a key role in expelling the Soviet army from his country. But his policies now tell a different story.
Despite the Russian offensive against Ukraine, Hungary remains one of Moscow's last remaining allies in the EU. Orban repeatedly blocks EU aid to Ukraine, portraying it as a "peace policy."
One reason for this stance: Hungary remains heavily dependent on energy imports from Russia. Orban used his veto power among the 27 EU member states to obtain exemptions from EU sanctions against Russian energy supplies.
At the hastily arranged meeting, Putin praised Orban for his "balanced stance on the Ukrainian issue."
But how harmonious was the Putin-Orbán meeting in the Kremlin? The Hungarian press is confused about this. They have discovered that Orbán did not hear everything that Putin said!
The reason: a translation error by the Hungarian translator. Putin actually told Orban: "Our views on some things, including international issues, do not necessarily coincide."
But Orban received a completely different message. According to the media portal "444.hu", the translator translated: "our cooperation is also working well at the international level..."
Since U.S. President Donald Trump took office, Europeans have been demanding new U.S. sanctions against Russia. But in September, he gave the Europeans a heads-up: new U.S. sanctions would only be imposed if Europeans stopped their energy imports from Russia.
That Trump ultimately imposed sanctions on the two energy giants Lukoil and Rosneft, while allowing Hungary (and Slovakia) to continue their activities, is likely only due to Orban’s good relationship with Trump. He can continue to fill Putin’s war coffers with oil and gas purchases.
Trump is determined to reach a deal to end the war in Ukraine, but he appears prepared to make major concessions to Russia. The 28-point plan of his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, envisaged massive territorial concessions from Ukraine to Russia. A new plan, according to the British newspaper "The Telegraph", is said to have not been watered down. According to reports, Trump is ready to recognize the Crimean Peninsula and the Donetsk and Luhansk regions as Russian territory.
Observers expect Orban to support Trump's plan, arguing that it will bring "peace," even if, from Ukraine's perspective, it is a dictated peace. In doing so, he undermines the EU's position.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz distanced himself from the Hungarian prime minister's trip. Merz also recalled the intensified Russian air strikes following Orban's visit in July last year, "shortly after he took over the presidency of the European Council."
“That visit was not only unsuccessful. Just a few days after it, the Russian military launched some of the most violent attacks in Ukraine, including against infrastructure and civilian targets,” Merz said. “I hope Russia will not retaliate this time.”
The Chancellor made it clear: Orban is traveling “without a European mandate and is traveling without consulting us.”
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