(Budapest) Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Friday called on Europeans to recognize the new situation created by the election of Donald Trump, by agreeing to “move from war to peace” in Ukraine, despite their reaffirmed support for Kyiv.
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“The situation on the battlefield is obvious, it is a military defeat” for Ukraine, he said on Friday before welcoming the heads of state and government of the 27, gathered in Budapest for a informal summit. Donald Trump “hates war” and therefore, “for us Europeans, the situation is evolving,” he added on Hungarian radio.
And for the Hungarian leader, who is pleading for a ceasefire, there is only one way to respond: “Let us adapt quickly and move from war to peace.”
The American billionaire, who is preparing his return to the White House at the end of January, promised during his campaign to end the war in Ukraine in “24 hours”, without specifying how he intended to go about it.
But other European leaders are not ready to give up their support, at a time when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denounces any concession to Russia as “suicidal”.
French President Emmanuel Macron and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk released a joint statement on Friday in which they reaffirmed their “determination to provide unwavering support to Ukraine and the Ukrainian people.”
They also “agreed to maintain and strengthen their support with the aim of defeating the Russian war of aggression”, according to this text.
But for Mr. Orban, the European front is cracking.
“The number of those who are silent, when they were previously more talkative, is increasing, the number of those who are cautious is increasing, and the number of those who are asking the question whether perhaps we should adapt to the new situation is also increasing,” he assured.
False, retorted Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson. “I even think that it is the opposite, the obvious support for Ukraine is the same as before,” he said upon his arrival at the summit of 27.
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