Russia Has Made Three Peace Proposals Since April and They Have Two Things in Common

By streiff

 

Hungarian President Viktor Orban caused something of a stir Friday when he visited Moscow and paid a call on Russian President Vladimir Putin. The trip drew a lot of attention for two reasons. First, Orban is the newly installed president of the Council of the European Union, and that body broke relations with Russia after Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Diplomacy on behalf of the EU is the responsibility of the Vice-President, Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas. Second, Orban’s Friday trip immediately followed his Thursday visit to Kiev and a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The video is from an Orban tweet that says only, “Peace mission. Second stop: Moscow.”

Peace mission. Second stop: Moscow. pic.twitter.com/pecdjg0HIT

— Orbán Viktor (@PM_ViktorOrban) July 6, 2024

This caused a minor crapstorm with Orban, who no one trusts to represent any interests other than Moscow’s and maybe Hungary’s if the moon is in the correct phase, being denounced and disavowed.

In the joint press conference after the Putin-Orban discussions, nothing seems to have changed. Putin reiterated his maximalist demands, and Orban apparently discovered that there was very little common ground upon which to begin negotiations.

[PUTIN:  ]The conditions for this, as I have already said, are set out in my speech at the Foreign Ministry. We are talking about the complete withdrawal of all Ukrainian troops from the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, from the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions. There are other conditions as well. But this is a subject for a fairly detailed consideration in the course of possible collaboration…

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