Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky delivered a forceful address on the second day of the World Economic Forum in Davos, sharply criticising European leaders and outlining a fragile but hopeful diplomatic moment in the long-running war with Russia. He even called out Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán, who then quickly answered.
The Ukrainian president is disappointed
Speaking shortly after a meeting with US President Donald Trump, Zelensky revealed that trilateral talks involving Ukraine, the United States and Russia are due to take place in the United Arab Emirates later this week, marking a potential first in direct peace negotiations.
According to Telex, Zelensky said documents aimed at ending the conflict are “nearly, nearly ready,” though he offered few concrete details and emphasised that key issues – especially territorial questions – remain unresolved. He underlined that meaningful security guarantees for Ukraine hinge on US support, reiterating Kyiv’s reliance on Washington as an indispensable partner.
The Ukrainian leader did not shy away from sharp political commentary. Drawing on the cult film Groundhog Day to describe the perception of repeated diplomatic frustration, Zelensky warned that Europe risks stagnation without decisive action, and argued that the continent still lacks the unity and strategic will to act as a global power.
PM Orbán answered quickly
His remarks struck a chord beyond policy circles, spilling into broader political tensions. Zelensky appeared to single out Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán without naming him directly, condemning leaders he characterised as prioritising narrow interests over European unity. “Every ‘Viktor’ who lives off European money, while selling Europe to their adversaries, deserves a whack on the head,” he said, in a comment widely interpreted as a jab at Budapest.
The response from the Hungarian prime minister was swift. Orbán took to social media to reject the critique, calling Zelensky “a man in a tight spot, who has been unable or unwilling to end a war for four years. And that despite the fact that the President of the United States has given you all the help you need”. and asserting that Hungary will not participate in military support for Ukraine, even as it continues to supply fuel, electricity and humanitarian aid.
Orban is pushing for nothing less than the complete surrender of Ukraine to the 21st century Hitler which is Putin. Russia launched a war of aggression against Ukraine and has conducted a hybrid war against the rest of Europe with arson attacks including the destruction of the largest shopping mall in Warsaw. They conducted multiple incendiary parcel attacks on cargo aircraft as a test for conducting terrorist parcel attacks on transatlantic flights. That idea was put on hold by the Kremlin after stern warnings by the Biden Administration in 2024 relayed through the CIA director and National Security Advisor to Biden. The FSB and GRU attempted to assassinate the CEO of Rheinmetall the most important arms manufacturer in Germany. Cyberattacks and sabotage attacks on infrastructure in Europe are happening on an ongoing basis including undersea cables in the Baltic Sea and a rail sabotage plot in Poland. The people attacking Europe are the people that Orban assists day after day as the traitor of Hungary and traitor of Europe. We have no choice but to defend ourselves against Russian aggression. The sooner we get rid of Orban and his fascist traitor government the better we can be at defending Europe.
Larry, Larry….
It is not Russia that plans to invade European territory. It’s the USA.
It’s not Orbán, that’s Chamberlin, but Starmer.
And it’s not Putin, who’s Hitler, but Trump.
YOU guys are the baddies.
Didn’t you get that after committing open piracy?
Didn’t you get that after you just murdered innocent people on fishing boats without even a show trial?
Didn’t you get that after kidnapping presidents of nations?
Didn’t you get that after trying to murder Putin in Valday?
Didn’t you get that after you partitioned an ally?
Hungary need the Russian connection, so that Hungary doesn’t become a US slave, like Germany and Denmark are.
I know it hurts you, that we aren’t your slaves, but you have to live with it, because it will stay so.
Dear Kremlin bot. We know who it is who invaded Ukraine and that fact is immutable. It is Putin’s Russia which is a threat to all of us. Putin has targeted civilians from day one of his invasion and has sent 300,000 Russians to their deaths in Ukraine so far. Orban is his paid stooge to has sold out Hungary to the war criminal. Putin’s goal is Russian expansion and the subjugation once again of the former Warsaw Pact countries. Fidesz removed the 1956 memorial from the front of Parliament. Let that be a warning to every Hungarian about what is coming to Hungary under Orban. Russian enslavement once again.
We know, that Ukraine became a battlefield, because your CIA terrorists staged a violent coup, that deteriorated into civil war, to which you provoked a Russian intervention.
I can’t believe you make me defend Russian fuckers. But you are insulting be by presupposing I’m just as stupid, and gullible as you fatasses are.
Did you actually think, that people living next to Ukraine are just as clueless about your regime change operation in Ukraine, as your corporate drones are in New York?!
The audacity!
“We know, that Ukraine became a battlefield, because your CIA terrorists staged a violent coup, that deteriorated into civil war, to which you provoked a Russian intervention.”
Absolutely that is what occurred, Dear Márk, but for many people, raised and nurtured on wild media yarns, spun by Western Intelligence Services, it is simply too hard to believe – because we, the West, are always good, and they in The East, Russia, Turkey, China, Syria, and Iran, amongst others, must always be bad.
It’s a script, Dear Márk, and they will not let you change the script – even if the script has nothing to do with reality.
BTW, I respond to your idiotic claims too:
– The 1956 memorial wasn’t removed. It was moved to the memorial in an underground tunnel, created form the Parliament’s cooling system. And no moving a memorial to the Parliament is not a move of disrespect.
– The Ukrainians are Russians anyways. Why would I care if the USA provoked the Russians to kill other Russians? I have nothing to do with it. And I don’t care.
– Tell me already what made you so high, that you think Russia wants the Warsaw Pact back? Russia wanted to end the Cold War in 1990. The USA did not let it end, and continued it unilaterally. That’s the conflict’s source. Are you high on mushrooms? It’s clearly not weed, or alcohol, those aren’t strong enough. No, you’r a ‘Merican, so it must be Fentanyl right? Does Fentanyl cause hallucinations? Or do you use something else?
Márk told you the truth, Dear Larry – but your mind is in such a way as that everything in the world that is bad is Russian, and, of course, you are cocksure they are hellbent to conquer The West.
And Márk is not only right about Russia, he is right about the need for Hungary to have good relations with Russia, to offset U.S. hegemony.
It’s a common sense position understood by all Hungarians who, not driven by emnity, or stuck in the period 1945-1956, are interested in advancing and protecting as much sovereignty as a little country, like Hungary, can have.
It’s not 1949 anymore, My Dear CIA/MI6 bot.
The anti-western narrative in Hungary never ceases to amaze and disturb me.
Well Steve,
Austria shouldn’t have tryied to enslave us for 200 years, the USA, France, and England (Britain is England, because f’ em) shouldn’t have stolen 3/4th of Hungary, and betrayed us in ’56, and the EU shouldn’t try to take away MY voting right (because taking away the right of the men I voted in, takes away MY voting right, if you didn’t got that), and then my opinion of them might’ve been different.
But the historical facts are, that the Russian are only a problems, when we provoke them. The West however is always a constant problem, trying to enslave us.
Just look at this news today:
https://hungarytoday.hu/u-s-embassy-delegation-holds-talks-with-national-election-office/
Seriously, WTF?! Day after day. And Russia is trying to influence Hungary?! Jesus, you must be living under a rock.
@londonsteve anti-western? Can you tell me the difference? All I see is Brussels or bette USA or no, those behind Trump pulling strings (WEF) ruling. Democracy isn’t more than a word. It’s not that if you say it, you are democratic.
I only see sky high bills, daughters send into a war that isn’t theirs (where is that threat?), girls/women/ elderly being raped, killed, robbed without any justice. Being jabbed and locked in, dying without justice and vote. Is this the western world, the one world order you cheer about?
Ukraine committed genocide for over 8 years and now they sacrifice more lives and force others to fight for them. Let Zelensky fight himself, be on the battlefield first row instead of using all the money sent to buy himself and his family over 40 villas worldwide.
From day one the war was tend to be lost. The country should have been a barrier between USA and Russia and the NAVO promised not to expand! Instead Fauci labs, Bidens pedophiles and USA labs and dirty dark things were founded and workout out in Ukraine. This isn’t different from Greenland, Venezuela, Iran, Afghanistan and so on.
A word is not a word, the fights are just continuing to find good reason to make a restart for one world order, digi money where everyone is grounded if not dead.
How come those being accused of being a threat never start a war?
Politicians behave worse than fighting toddlers and I don’t believed the coloured news since years, all ment to brainwash and raise woke people.
Robot Mouton and Márk It’s a closed loop of paranoia, a duet where the only tune they know is “everyone is wrong but us.”
Sure. I’m the odd one here.
Not you with the “everyone is wrong, I don’t hear you REEEEEEEE!” attitude.
That is a perfectly healthy, adult opinion to have.
XD
At least you entertain me.