Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Wednesday that he had proposed the idea of Ukraine and Russia establishing a Christmas truce, but it was rejected by Ukrainian President Voldomyr Zelensky.
“At the end of the Hungarian EU Presidency, we made new efforts for peace. We proposed a Christmas ceasefire and a large-scale prisoner exchange,” Orban wrote on X. “It’s sad that President [Zelensky] clearly rejected and ruled this out today. We did what we could!”
Orban didn’t specify how the proposal was presented or how Russia responded. His post on X was a response to Zelensky apparently taking a shot at the Hungarian leader for speaking with Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier in the day.
“We all hope that [Orban] at least won’t call Assad in Moscow to listen to his hour-long lectures as well,” Zelensky wrote on X, referring to the recently deposed Syrian leader who fled to Moscow. “There can be no discussions about the war that Russia wages against Ukraine without Ukraine.”
In Orban’s statement on the call with Putin, he said Hungary is “taking every possible diplomatic step to argue in favor of a ceasefire and [peace] talks.”
The Kremlin said that during the call, Putin blamed Ukraine for the lack of a diplomatic solution to the war. “Vladimir Putin shared his fundamental views on the current developments surrounding Ukraine and the destructive policies of the Kiev regime, which continue to rule out the possibility of resolving the conflict peacefully,” the Kremlin said.
Orban has been one of the few NATO leaders who has maintained contact with Putin, and he has consistently called for a ceasefire in Ukraine, angering other European Union nations.
Zelensky doesn't want a cease fire because he wants to continually ratchet up tensions until he gets WW3.
He wants the money pay off.
That’s obvious.
As soon as war ends, Zelensky will be recognized as another Eastern European dictator.
He would end up having the same faith as Saddam and Kaddafi…!
It's not even Moscow's Christmas, unless the plan was a two-week deal? Or just ignoring when the holiday is for one side? Or a Christmas pause, back to killing for about 11 days, then another two days off? "Make it make sense!"
When the entire point of the coup from the Ukronazi (true believer as opposed to pure grifter) perspective was to subjugate, kill, expel etc as many Orthodox Christians as possible, what were the odds that Catholic Christmas would be respected by Russia and then Orthodox Christmas would be respected as a tip of the hat back to a church that was just banned by the government..?
Good point, really do need to specify which Christmases are involved. I say, gave a ceasefire from the Dec 25th Christmas straight through until the Dec 25, 2040 Christmas.
That's because he is non-Christian…!
Seems logical to me…
Kwanzaa'a Pause, then.
So, Zelensky gets to be warm and cozy and the Ukrainian troops don't even get a couple days respite from being cold, hungry and shot at.
The Ukrainian commanders in the field should ignore Zelensky and arrange a Christmas truce with the field Russian commanders and tell the political generals and the politicians to F off.
orban is not one to care about truces or rights
screw him
O̶r̶b̶a̶n̶ Zelensky is not one to care about truces or rights
screw him.
real jokester here
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2024/12/nima-and-yours-truly_12.html
Few would expect Russia to finance pensions and health plans if Moscow decided to conduct revanchism of all of Ukraine.
Russia will never see the $300 billion-plus of Western-expropriated sovereign and corporate forex reserves. That looms large.
It's simple to assume that Ukraine won't 'allow' Western companies access to a new government, own agricultural, commercial, and residential real estate, or invest in mining ventures.