The Ukraine agreement was only reached after the Putin-Trump meeting.

According to TASS on May 17, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban believes that an agreement to resolve the conflict in Ukraine can only be reached through a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to Orban, negotiations between Russia and Ukraine alone are insufficient.

In an interview with the Fakty program on TV2 on the evening of May 16, Prime Minister Orban said: “It will not work. If you hope that Russia and Ukraine will reach an agreement, that is a mistake. It will not happen. In the last three years, an agreement could have happened any day, but it never happened. I myself negotiated with them privately and was rejected.”

In July 2024, Prime Minister Orban traveled to Kyiv and Moscow to carry out peacekeeping duties, where he met with President Volodymyr Zelensky and President Vladimir Putin, respectively.

"Peace can only be achieved if President Trump continues his peace initiatives. He has negotiated with Mr. Zelensky, and now it's time to sit down at the negotiating table with the Russian President. If Mr. Trump talks to the Russian President, then we will take a big step forward and can achieve peace. And without that, we won't be able to do anything at all," the Hungarian Prime Minister confidently stated.

Orban also suggested that, like the US, Europe should resume dialogue with Russia. "Sooner or later, Europeans will have to negotiate with President Putin. This is inevitable. The question Europeans must answer is whether we want to negotiate before the meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, or whether we only want to negotiate afterward," Orban said.

According to the Hungarian Prime Minister, leading EU countries like Germany and France should take the initiative to address this issue.

"Germany and France must demonstrate determination," Prime Minister Orban said, emphasizing that the current issue is ending the war on the European continent.