Hungarian government pledges to buy hundreds of millions of dollars worth of gas and weapons from US - agreements made public

After the meeting between US President Donald Trump and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, relations are "reaching new heights."

The US State Department has stated this.

The State Department spoke about a number of agreements signed after the talks between the two leaders, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Among them is cooperation in the field of nuclear energy, in particular, the construction of ten small modular reactors, as well as the storage of spent fuel.

Szijjártó also talked about this on X.

Budapest has signed a USD 114 million deal with Westinghouse (US) to supply nuclear fuel. In addition, Hungary has pledged to purchase USD 600 million worth of liquefied natural gas and USD 700 million worth of American defense products from the United States.

Earlier today, Budapest signed a USD 114 million deal with Westinghouse (US) to supply nuclear fuel.

The day before, as the Ukrainian News agency informed, Orban said that he had secured from Trump an exemption from US sanctions on the supply of Russian fuel through the Druzhba oil pipeline and the Turkish Stream gas pipeline.

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