The Hungarian leader proposed that the E.U. consider changing its policy on the war in Ukraine in a letter to European Council leadership that echoed Trump’s foreign policy preferences.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and European Council President Charles Michel during a European Council meeting in Brussels on June 27, 2024.
A long-time critic of the E.U.’s unequivocal support of Ukraine, Orban said that he believed that Trump would win reelection in November, and urged the E.U. to revamp its policy toward the war in Ukraine in response — namely, by seeking a negotiated settlement of the conflict and the reestablishment of diplomatic communication between Europe and Russia.The Hungarian leader also warned that a Trump victory in November would reduce U.S. aid, making the E.U.
Ukraine and its Western backers have insisted that the war could end if Russia simply withdrew its troops from Ukraine. Russia launched its invasion in February 2022, and currently has control of approximately one-fifth of Ukraine’s territory. Ukraine’s political leadership has said that any negotiations premised on its surrender of that territory were a non-starter., proposes that the E.U.
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