BUDAPEST: Hungary’s nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Friday celebrated his country’s status as the host of upcoming talks between US President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin, a meeting where the two leaders are expected to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine. Trump on Thursday announced his second meeting this year with Putin a day before he was to sit down with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House. A date for the meeting has not been set, but Trump said it would take place in Hungary’s capital, Budapest, and suggested it could happen in about two weeks.

Before that, there will be a meeting of the countries' high level advisors

Viktor Orban said that he had just got off the phone with President Donald Trump

Asked who chose Budapest given that history, top White House aides told HuffPost: “Your mom.”

Budapest è l’unico posto in Europa per un incontro del genere

Dopo aver sentito il presidente Usa Donald Trump, il primo ministro ungherese Viktor Orbán discuterà oggi con il capo di Stato russo Vladimir Putin dell'incontro tra i due leader…

Dopo aver sentito il presidente Usa Donald Trump, il primo ministro ungherese Viktor Orbán discuterà oggi con il capo di Stato russo Vladimir Putin dell'incontro tra i due leader…

US-Präsident Donald Trump will sich im Ringen um ein Ende des Ukraine-Kriegs mit Kremlchef Wladimir Putin in Budapest treffen. Aber warum gerade in der ungarischen Hauptstadt?

Viktor Orban expressed hope that the upcoming talks between the two leaders in the Hungarian capital will become an important step toward settling the Ukraine conflict

BUDAPEST: Hungary’s nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Friday celebrated his country’s status as the host of upcoming talks between US President Donald Trump and Russia’s…

On Thursday, after holding a phone conversation with Russian president Vladimir Putin, US President Donald Trump said they had agreed to meet soon in Budapest

At the initiative of the Hungarian side, Russian President Vladimir Putin held a telephone conversation with the Hungarian prime minister

The Hungarian Prime Minister said the country’s economy "will finally breathe a sigh of relief, returning to pre-war growth patterns," once the ongoing conflict in Ukraine ends