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Slovak premier Fico claims certain EU circles want to scupper Budapest Trump-Putin summit
Robert Fico, the Slovak prime minister and a close ally of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on the European stage, says he has clear evidence that some factions within Europe are determined to derail the planned Budapest summit between President Trump and President Putin.
Fico: summit should happen ASAP
Fico referred to remarks made yesterday by the Polish foreign minister, in which Warsaw suggested that, under international law, it could seize Russian President Vladimir Putin’s plane if it entered Polish airspace en route to the planned meeting with US President Donald Trump in Budapest. Radosław Sikorski noted that Hungary, as an EU member, can be reached from Russia via the airspace of Turkey, Montenegro and Serbia
According to Fico, the EU has effectively become a “war cabinet”, with a significant number of member states backing the conflict in Ukraine under the naïve belief that this will weaken or even defeat Russia. He added that the EU does not want peace in Ukraine and stressed that the Trump–Putin summit should take place as soon as possible.
FM Szijjártó: Hungary ready to host US-Russia peace summit
Hungary remains prepared to host a US–Russia peace summit, calling it the only viable path to resolving the war in Ukraine, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó told CNN in Washington on Tuesday. A statement from his ministry welcomed the recent communication between the US and Russian presidents as a hopeful sign of a personal meeting in Budapest, despite uncertainties surrounding the timing.
Szijjártó confirmed Hungary’s readiness to host the summit and emphasised the government’s commitment to peace over the past three and a half years. He pledged to provide all necessary conditions for the event’s success and expressed hope that the summit would go ahead. Regarding any delay, he said that the date had not yet been set and hoped his meeting with his US counterpart, Marco Rubio, on Wednesday would clarify the situation.
Fico and Orban are full of BS. Trump and Putin do not have to meet in Budapest. Boys and girls put your thinking caps on. We live on big planet and do you think they could possibly meet somewhere else like they already did in Alaska? Trump wants Putin to freeze the front line and Putin won’t agree to it and therefore they are not meeting anywhere.
It was actually Mr. Rubio (American – same guy who led the campaign to get Venezuela’s María Corina Machado the Nobel Peace Prize) – who, after speaking to Mr. Lavrov, concluded Mr. Trump coming to Budapest was premature.
I will just cite TASS – the Russian state-owned news agency – for the folks who are more prone to believing these types of sources:
https://tass.com/politics/2033395
Orban Ally Putin Bombs Kindergarten – BBC: “At least seven people have been killed including two children during intense Russian drone and missile strikes on Ukraine, officials say.
A kindergarten was hit in Ukraine’s second biggest city Kharkiv and there was widespread damage in Kyiv. Children were among the 27 people wounded.
Hours earlier, US President Donald Trump said his plans for an imminent summit in Budapest with Russia’s Vladimir Putin had been shelved as he did not want a “wasted meeting”.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said the attacks proved Moscow had not come under enough pressure for its continued war.”