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During a telephone interview which took place this Wednesday with the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, Russian President Vladimir Putin ruled out any “peaceful resolution” of the conflict while pointing the finger at the “destructive line of the kyiv regime” .
Many are waiting for the start of 2025 and the coming to power of Donald Trump to see the beginnings of peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia. It's time for negotiations: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke last weekend with the American billionaire with the aim of finding solutions to end the conflict. In an interview with Paris Match, the future American president who is to be inaugurated on January 20, indicated that “the priority is to resolve the Ukrainian problem with Russia. These two countries are suffering incredible human losses. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers are killed.” Donald Trump also wanted a “ceasefire” as quickly as possible.
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Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone this Wednesday, December 11 with the Hungarian head of state, Viktor Orban. In a statement, the Kremlin said the two politicians “exchanged their views” on the situation in Ukraine. If the Hungarian presidency claims to want to call on “Western leaders” to find a “political-diplomatic” solution, the master of the Kremlin appears more pessimistic. While pointing the finger at the “destructive line of the kyiv regime”, Vladimir Putin excludes any “peaceful resolution” of the conflict.
“Unity in Europe has always been the key”
If there are peace negotiations, Russia has continued to insist that it wants Ukraine to cede some of its territories: the four regions in the south and east that the Russian armed forces occupy today. partially. Moscow also wants Ukraine to renounce joining NATO. “Potential agreements must take into account the interests of the Russian Federation regarding security, be based on new territorial realities and, above all, address the root causes of the conflict,” said the Kremlin in a press release shared ago several days.
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For his part, Volodymyr Zelensky attacked the Hungarian Prime Minister. The Ukrainian president accuses Viktor Orban of undermining European “unity” in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “No one should promote their own image to the detriment of unity” and “unity in Europe has always been the key” to ending the Russian invasion, said the Ukrainian leader. “There cannot be discussions about the war that Russia is waging against Ukraine, without Ukraine,” Volodymyr Zelensky continued on the social network Telegram.
