Ukraine war briefing: Hungary’s new leader says he would ask Putin to end the killing in Ukraine | Ukraine

Ukraine war briefing: Hungary’s new leader says he would ask Putin to end the killing in Ukraine | Ukraine
April 13, 2026

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Ukraine war briefing: Hungary’s new leader says he would ask Putin to end the killing in Ukraine | Ukraine

Péter Magyar, Hungary’s new leader, said he would ask Vladimir Putin to end the killing in Ukraine if they speak, and plans to review Hungary’s Russian energy contracts and renegotiate them if needed. Magyar said he would talk to the Russian president, but won’t initiate contact. “If Vladimir Putin calls, I’ll pick up the phone,” he said in his first news conference after his landslide win against Viktor Orbán, a Putin ally. “If we did talk, I could tell him that it would be nice to end the killing after four years and end the war. It would probably be a short phone conversation and I don’t think he would end the war on my advice,” he said.

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