Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that he does not support the idea of holding talks between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Hungary, referring to the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, News.bg reports.
„Budapest? Not everyone can remember this, but in 1994 Ukraine already received guarantees of territorial integrity from the US, Russia and Great Britain. In Budapest. "Maybe I'm superstitious, but this time I would try to find a different place," Tusk wrote on the social network X.
The media reported that the US is considering Hungary as a possible location for the Zelensky-Putin summit, but Tusk believes that holding it in the Hungarian capital would be historically ironic.
According to other media, Putin has proposed a meeting with the Ukrainian president in Moscow, which Zelensky has refused.
Meanwhile, the chairman of the largest opposition party in Hungary, “Tisa“, Péter Magyar, has called on Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to organize a meeting between the leaders of Ukraine and Russia in Budapest.