Orban says he will continue his peacekeeping mission

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said that he is continuing to work on the so-called "peacekeeping" mission in which he is trying to "prevent escalation" of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. He told reporters on Saturday, 7 September, before attending an event in the western Hungarian city of Kjocsa.

Orban said he had previously sent his "peace plan" to European Union leaders but that it had been ignored by politicians.

I wrote that if we had done certain things at the beginning of July, we could have prevented this conflict from escalating in the next two or three months. Now, if you compare the situation at the beginning of July with the current situation at the beginning of September, things are much worse than they were then," he believes.

At the same time, the Hungarian prime minister said that his peacekeeping mission "is not finished.

I have been working on it all summer, we are working at the international level. There will be new convincing initiatives, some of them will be seen in September. We need to work on it, Orban said without giving any details.

As is known, as part of the "peace mission", the Hungarian prime minister travelled to Moscow and spoke to Vladimir Putin, becoming the first European leader to visit the Kremlin owner since April 2022.