Hungarian Minister Slams EU Over Lack of Support for Christmas Truce Proposal

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Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó Slams EU Over Lack of Support for Christmas Truce Proposal

  • Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó has criticized his EU counterparts for their lack of support for Viktor Orbán's Christmas truce proposal at a foreign ministers' meeting on 16 December.
  • Szijjártó argued that the EU is ignoring the situation on the battlefield and continuing to back its "current strategy", but no one at the meeting supported the idea of a Christmas truce.
  • The proposed ceasefire was meant to stop Russian offensive operations, but some ministers explicitly opposed it.
  • Orbán had previously claimed that he had suggested a Christmas ceasefire and a large-scale prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia, but it was later confirmed that this was false.

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