Wednesday, August 13, 2025 - Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán has opined that Ukraine has lost the war against Russia, as he looked ahead to a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
has lost this war,” he said in an interview published by far-right conservative
news site mandiner.hu on Wednesday, August 13.
“The Ukrainians have lost this war;
Russia has won the war.”
“We are talking like this was a
situation of war with an open end,” the Hungarian leader said, adding that this
assessment was false.
Orbán, who has repeatedly vetoed EU
sanctions on Russia over the war in Ukraine, claimed that Kiev would not
capitulate as long as it was being supplied with weapons and funds by Western
partners.
“Otherwise, this war would have been
over long ago,” the right-wing politician said.
On Tuesday, Hungary declined to sign a
joint statement by its 26 fellow European Union allies welcoming efforts by
Trump to end Russia’s war on Ukraine.
The statement demanded that Ukraine’s
territorial integrity be ensured, saying that “international borders must not
be changed by force.”
Orbán justified his government’s refusal
to back the declaration, claiming it attempted to set conditions for
negotiations to which EU leaders were not even invited. The bilateral meeting
between Trump and Putin, set to take place in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday, has
sparked fears in Kyiv and the rest of Europe.
The two leaders could strike an
agreement that would force Ukraine into making territorial concessions, a move
that Zelensky has categorically ruled out.
Orbán, on a Facebook post, said it was
sad enough that the EU has been pushed to the sidelines.
“The only thing worse will be if we were
giving instructions from the sidelines,” he wrote.
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