Orban: My peacekeeping mission is not over yet

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said he is continuing to work on the so-called peacekeeping mission, within which he is trying to “prevent the escalation” of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

He told reporters about this on Saturday, September 7, before participating in an event in the city of Kocse in western Hungary.

Orban recalled that after his trips to Ukraine and Russia, he sent EU leaders his “peace plan,” which was later published through media leaks.

“I wrote that if we had done certain things in early July, we could have prevented the escalation of this conflict in the next two or three months. Now, if we compare the situation in early July with the current situation in early September, everything is much worse than it was then,” he said.

The Hungarian prime minister went on to say that his peacekeeping mission “is not over, by the way”.

“I have been working on it all summer, we are working at the international level. There will be new convincing initiatives, some of which can be seen in September. We need to work on it,” Orban assured without giving any details.

As you know, as part of his “peace mission,” the Hungarian prime minister traveled to Moscow and spoke with Vladimir Putin, becoming the first European leader to visit the Kremlin's owner since April 2022.

Author - Dmitriy Levchenko, 09/09/2024