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Pjotr Sauer in Kyiv and Flora Garamvolgyi

Viktor Orbán visits Kyiv for surprise talks with Volodymyr Zelenskiy

The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy  with the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, seated opposite each other at a table with flags of Hungary, Ukraine and the EU in the background
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy (right), and the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, at their meeting in Kyiv on Tuesday. Photograph: Zoltán Fischer/AP

Hungary’s prime minister, an outspoken critic of western aid to Ukraine, has held talks with President Volodomyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv, following a surprise visit by Europe’s most pro-Russian leader to the Ukrainian capital.

The trip by Viktor Orbán came a day after Hungary took over the rotating EU presidency until the end of the year, to the dismay of many other European politicians, given the country’s frequent clashes with Brussels over domestic rule-of-law issues and foreign policy.

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