RUSSIA TO BE ‘REINTEGRATED’ INTO WORLD ECONOMY – If War in Ukraine Ends, Says Victor Orban
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told state radio, that Russia will be “reintegrated” into the world economy and the European energy system once a peace deal is achieved and the war ends.
U.S. President Trump said both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy expressed a desire for peace in separate phone calls with him on Wednesday, and he ordered top U.S. officials to begin talks on ending the war.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022, Orban has emerged as a top Trump supporter, a vocal critic of EU sanctions against Moscow and the bloc’s financial and military support for Ukraine.
While countries in Western Europe have made serious efforts to wean themselves off Russian energy, landlocked Hungary is very heavily dependent on gas from Russia, with most of its crude oil supplies also coming from Russia.
Most of the gas is delivered from the south, via the TurkStream pipeline that runs under the Black Sea to Turkey and then passes through Bulgaria and Serbia.
