Hungarian leader praised Republican front-runner as a “man of peace.”
Donald Trump will totally stop funding Ukraine if he wins the U.S. election in November, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said following a meeting between the right-wing figureheads.
“He will not give a penny in the Ukraine-Russia war,” Orbán told Hungarian state media Sunday. “Therefore, the war will end, because it is obvious that Ukraine can not stand on its own feet.”
The longtime allies met last Friday at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, a summit which was lambasted by U.S. President Joe Biden.
Putin has said repeatedly that Ukrainians and Russians are “one people” and a separate Ukraine doesn’t really exist. It seems you haven’t been paying attention.
The Kremlin posted propaganda piece, written by Putin, doesn’t seem to be loading for me, but there’s a Wiki on it here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Historical_Unity_of_Russians_and_Ukrainians
“Putin openly questions the legitimacy of Ukraine’s contemporary borders.[9] According to Putin, the modern-day Ukraine occupies historically Russian lands,[9] and is an “anti-Russia project” created by external forces since the seventeenth century, and of administrative and political decisions made during the Soviet Union[5] (a BBC article traced the term “anti-Russia project” to some Russian conspiratorial writing of 2011–13).[10] He also discusses the Russo-Ukrainian War, maintaining that “Kiev simply does not need Donbas”.[11]”
Which is, of course, nonsense.
https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/ukraine-history-fact-checking-putin-513812/
https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/russia-and-ukraine-one-people-putin-claims