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The Russian president Vladimir Putin he sees with a good eye the efforts of the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban to achieve a Christmas truce in Ukraine.
At the same time, Vladimir Putin appears positive to Viktor Orban’s other proposal for a major exchange of prisoners of war, the Kremlin said on Thursday, while Ukraine does not seem to agree with the idea.
Orban made the suggestions in a phone call to Putin on Wednesday (11/12), the Kremlin and Hungary said, without elaborating.
“The Russian side fully supports Orban’s efforts to find a peaceful settlement and resolve humanitarian issues related to the prisoner exchange,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) analyzed details of a possible prisoner exchange at the Hungarian embassy, Peskov said.
After the Orban-Putin phone call, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused the Hungarian leader of undermining Western unity and appeared to mock Hungary’s peace efforts.
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