Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban revealed in a post on Facebook on Wednesday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rejected the proposal to arrange a Christmas ceasefire and a "large-scale" prisoner swap with Russia.
"At the end of the Hungarian EU Presidency, we made new efforts for peace," wrote Orban, adding that both proposals were "clearly rejected and ruled out" by Zelensky. "We did what we could," the Hungarian PM concluded.
Earlier on Wednesday, Zelensky referred to Orban in a post on X, stating he hoped he would "at least not call [former Syrian President] Bashar al-Assad in Moscow to listen to his "long lectures" in a likely reference to Orban's phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Ukraine's leader also stressed his country must not be excluded from discussions about its conflict with Russia.
