Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán declared that Hungary “belongs to the peace camp” in relation to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Hungarian State Secretary for International Relations Zoltan Kovacs quoted Orban as saying Hungary supported “an immediate cease-fire in order to avoid further deaths.” Hungary has historically had fraught relations with Russia and Ukraine,
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán declared that Hungary “belongs to the peace camp” in relation to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Hungarian State Secretary for International Relations Zoltan Kovacs quoted Orban as saying Hungary supported “an immediate cease-fire in order to avoid further deaths.” Hungary has historically had fraught relations with Russia and Ukraine, the latter of which currently shares a border with Hungary. Previously, both Ukraine and Russia were part of the Soviet Union, which invaded Hungary in 1956 after Hungarians rebelled against Soviet influence. However, relations with Russia improved somewhat in the 2000s and 2010s over Hungary’s