Zelenskiy Slams Budapest as Putin Summit Venue But Says He Would Go

[lostincalifornia]

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Budapest wasn’t the best place for talks to end the war in Ukraine because of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Russia-friendly stance, but he’d still come if invited.

“I do not believe that a prime minister who blocks Ukraine everywhere can do anything positive for Ukrainians or even provide a balanced contribution,” Zelenskiy said of Orban, who has repeatedly sought to stall European Union sanctions on Russia and traveled to Moscow to meet Putin.

Still, Zelenskiy said he’d consider an invitation to Budapest. “If it’s an invitation in a format where the three of us meet, or, as it’s called, shuttle diplomacy, where President Trump meets with Putin and President Trump meets with me – then, in one format or another, we’ll agree to it,” he said.

Donald Trump announced plans to meet Vladimir Putin in the Hungarian capital in the coming weeks following a phone call with the Russian president on Thursday, less than three months after their August summit meeting at a US military base in Alaska ended with little visible progress on ending the war.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-20/zelenskiy-slams-budapest-as-putin-summit-venue-says-he-would-go?srnd=homepage-americas

[Lovie777]

1. It could be a trap........................

[lostincalifornia]

2. I would bet on it. Zelenskiy needs to insist on a neutral country.

[Wuddles440]

3. +1!!!

[Solly Mack]

4. That's my worry.

That he will be assassinated.

[themaguffin]

5. Yeah, this isn't good. The fact out of all of the possible countries, this one is the location is bullshit.