Hungary has proposed to russia and Ukraine to conclude a truce for several days and exchange prisoners on Christmas Eve. Kyiv has rejected a request for a telephone conversation about a truce between Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said this in an interview with VEOL.
According to him, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán proposed that russia and Ukraine declare a truce so that "no one dies in these few days" and hold a mass exchange of prisoners of up to a thousand people.
According to Szijjártó, Orbán called his proposal one that has not been made in the last thousand days. However, Szijjártó added, "the proposal is no longer on the table."
The Hungarian minister noted that he noticed that after Orbán’s December 11 phone call with russian leader vladimir putin, he asked Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha and Head of the Presidential Office Andrii Yermak to organize a phone call between Orbán and Zelenskyy.
According to him, the Ukrainian side, in a "gesture rather unprecedented for diplomacy" and "firmly, albeit culturally," refused this opportunity.
Szijjártó believes that "the Hungarian peacekeeping mission over the past six months has done everything possible, and even much more than could be expected from a country of such size, with such capabilities and in such a situation as Hungary."
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, on December 11, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticized the call of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to the leader of the aggressor country, russia, vladimir putin, regarding peace talks.
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