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Andrew Roth in Washington and Flora Garamvolgyi in Budapest

Orbán to visit US to try to broker another Putin summit but questions raised over motives

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Viktor Orbán on 23 October 2025. Photograph: Balint Szentgallay/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

Viktor Orbán will visit the White House on Friday as Hungary’s far-right prime minister tries to broker another summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin that Orbán’s advisers claim could help end the war between Russia and Ukraine.

Orbán, who has proposed hosting the summit in Budapest, will also seek an exemption from US sanctions against Russian energy in what will be a major test of Trump’s tougher line on the Kremlin after he accused Putin of slow-rolling negotiations to end the conflict.

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