Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, whose presidential term expired on May 20, rejected Budapest's proposal for a Christmas truce. This was announced by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, writes Forbes. "At the end of Hungary's EU presidency, we took new steps for peace. We proposed a Christmas ceasefire and a large-scale prisoner exchange.
Today, Zelensky rejected and ruled it out. We did everything we could," he wrote on one of the social networks. For his part, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó said that Orbán raised the possibility of a Christmas truce and a large exchange of prisoners during a conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, after which the Hungarian government contacted Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sibiga and the leader.
"It is very unfortunate that President Zelenskiy in a public address ultimately ruled out this possibility and rejected everything that was discussed in the morning," Szijjártó said.
