Orban says Hungary will have to reconsider relations with Russia

This opinion was expressed by Prime Minister Viktor Orban at an economic forum in Budapest, Bloomberg reports.

According to Orban, good cooperation with Russia is in Hungary's favour, but he fears that Moscow's relations with Europe as a whole have suffered so much because of the war that they may not recover for a long time.

In this regard, Orban believes that Hungary should "seriously consider" what kind of political and economic relations it should build with Russia for the next 10-15 years.

• In late February, renowned political analyst Andrey Piontkovsky called Orban “a fat rat running away from Putin's ship”. The analyst said Orban was fretting after not being invited to the summit of leaders of all Eastern European countries in Warsaw, where Biden was personally present.

• On February 18, the President's Office confirmed that Viktor Orban had received an invitation to visit Ukraine. Zelenskyy personally invited him at the EU summit on February 9.

• On March 6, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said that Prime Minister Viktor Orban is preparing to visit Ukraine.