Kiev also refused to carry out a major exchange of prisoners with Russia, according to the Hungarian PM.
Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has rejected a proposed Christmas ceasefire and a large-scale prisoner swap with Russia, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Wednesday.
Orban made the remarks on X in response to a post by Zelensky criticizing a phone conversation between the Hungarian leader and Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier that day.
“At the end of the Hungarian EU Presidency, we made new efforts for peace. We proposed a Christmas ceasefire and a large-scale prisoner exchange. It’s sad that [Zelensky] clearly rejected and ruled this out today. We did what we could!” Orban wrote.
Zelensky accused Orban of merely seeking to “boost personal image” with his diplomatic efforts and mockingly expressed hopes that the Hungarian leader “at least won’t call [former Syrian President Bashar] Assad in Moscow to listen to his hour-long lectures as well.”
“No one should boost personal image at the expense of unity; everyone should focus on shared success. Unity in Europe has always been key to achieving it. There can be no discussions about the war that Russia wages against Ukraine without Ukraine,” Zelensky wrote.
Shortly after the social media exchange, Dmitry Litvin, an aide to Zelensky, flatly denied that any contacts between Kiev and Budapest on a proposed Christmas ceasefire and prisoner swap took place, effectively suggesting that Orban was not telling the truth.
“As always, Ukraine has not authorized Hungary to do anything. As always, Ukraine is working on a daily basis to free prisoners, and for two weeks now, relevant contacts have been ongoing regarding a significant exchange by the end of the year,” Litvin told Ukrainian media.
The aide also appeared to echo claims made by Zelensky about Orban’s true motives, stating that Ukraine needs “not PR, but a fair peace, and not blabber, but reliable security guarantees.”
Does Zelensky realise the US is not going to support the war with Russia?
Zelensky is a JEW. He is not a christian and hates christianity as we saw how he treated churches in ukraine.
You don t think xmas means anything to him ?
Zelensky is Kazarian. Ukraine is the center of the Kazarian people, the “name stealers”, the “deep state”. That is why the US federal government and EU is supporting them so much. Failure in Ukraine means failure for the global deep state. When Ukraine is defeated then the world will see what has been done there in terms of child trafficking and other forms of child abuse that are much worse – stuff that can be barely imagined – stuff that the worst horror movie would not show because it would be so bad that people would not go to the cinema.
The Kazarian people used to kill traders about 1000 years ago and take over their trades and names. That is why they are called the “name stealers”. A Persian King gave them the choice to become Christian, Muslim or practice Judaism, thinking that this would improve their behavior, and they chose to pretend to be Jews. They are not Jews at all, they pretend to be Jews because they “steal” the identity of other cultures in order to spread hatred and chaos and confusion which they do very well.
thank you mark