Photo: Getty Images. Orban accused Merz of unwillingness to negotiate with Russia
The Hungarian Prime Minister has begun to accuse European leaders of being unwilling to negotiate with Russia, the German Chancellor said.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that he had a dispute with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban last week over Russia’s war against Ukraine, DW reports .
Orban began to accuse European leaders of being unwilling to negotiate with Russia, the Chancellor said.
To this accusation, Merz responded that last July, when Hungary held the presidency of the EU Council, he, Orban, traveled to Kyiv and then to Moscow to see Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
“And Putin’s response was to bomb a children’s hospital in Kyiv. And that’s not the path I want to take,” the Chancellor emphasized.
When asked if he had thought about calling Putin, Merz said he was “thinking about it.”
“I just see that now any attempt to talk to him ends in even more brutal attacks on Ukraine,” he explained his position.