“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Hungary’s idea of a “Christmas truce”: there are no realistic proposals. The spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine denied the existence of a real “Christmas truce”, calling it a PR move by the Hungarian side. Ukraine has repeatedly asked Hungary to stop manipulating the topic of war and Christmas.”, — write on: unn.ua
“There is no real Christmas truce on the table. This is PR from the Hungarian side, which we call “peace PR”. Why are they doing this? For their own internal political considerations. There are no realistic proposals on the negotiating table. We have repeatedly asked the Hungarian side not to engage in manipulations on the subject of war, people’s deaths and Christmas. This is simply cynical manipulation,” said Tykhi.
He noted that the Ukrainian side asked the Hungarian side publicly and not publicly to stop these manipulations.
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Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán claimed to have offered Ukraine a “Christmas truce” and a prisoner exchange, but according to the Office of the President, Ukraine was not informed of such initiatives. The President’s Office added that negotiations on the exchange of prisoners have been ongoing for two weeks and do not concern Orban’s statements.
Zelensky criticized Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s attempts to “put pressure on Putin”.
Subsequently, Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán made another statement regarding the “Christmas truce”. The President’s Office once again answered – “no one needs Putin’s race”.
The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary, Peter Szijarto, stated that official Kyiv rejected the request for a conversation between Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Volodymyr Zelensky.
Yesterday, on December 19, President Zelensky said that the relations between Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin are too “warm” to put the Russian tyrant in his place.