00:19Mandatory credit: Hungarian PM's office
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban posted photos from his landmark talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on his social media channel on Friday.
The images show the two shaking hands, talking and sitting with their respective delegations.
Earlier, Orban announced his visit to the Russian capital with a picture from the airport, adding: 'The peace mission continues. Second stop: Moscow.' It comes less than a week after Hungary assumed the six-month rotating presidency of the Council of the EU.
The European External Action Service said that Orban's visit to Moscow was taking place without 'any mandate from the EU Council' while European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen claimed that it would not resolve the Ukrainian crisis, writing on X that only unity and determination "will pave the path to a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in Ukraine" - and adding that "appeasement will not stop Putin".
Earlier this week, Orban visited Kiev and urged Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky to 'take a break', have a ceasefire and 'continue negotiations' - although admitted the response to his suggestion had been 'frank'.
Deputy Head of the Ukrainian presidential office Igor Zhovkva said that the ceasefire issue could not be 'considered in isolation' from other aspects of the conflict settlement.
Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February 2022 after recognising the independence of the DPR and LPR, claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.
Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow.
In the frame - Orban posts photos of landmark talks with Putin *STILLS*
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban posted photos from his landmark talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on his social media channel on Friday.
The images show the two shaking hands, talking and sitting with their respective delegations.
Earlier, Orban announced his visit to the Russian capital with a picture from the airport, adding: 'The peace mission continues. Second stop: Moscow.' It comes less than a week after Hungary assumed the six-month rotating presidency of the Council of the EU.
The European External Action Service said that Orban's visit to Moscow was taking place without 'any mandate from the EU Council' while European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen claimed that it would not resolve the Ukrainian crisis, writing on X that only unity and determination "will pave the path to a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in Ukraine" - and adding that "appeasement will not stop Putin".
Earlier this week, Orban visited Kiev and urged Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky to 'take a break', have a ceasefire and 'continue negotiations' - although admitted the response to his suggestion had been 'frank'.
Deputy Head of the Ukrainian presidential office Igor Zhovkva said that the ceasefire issue could not be 'considered in isolation' from other aspects of the conflict settlement.
Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February 2022 after recognising the independence of the DPR and LPR, claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.
Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow.
Mandatory credit: Hungarian PM's office
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban posted photos from his landmark talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on his social media channel on Friday.
The images show the two shaking hands, talking and sitting with their respective delegations.
Earlier, Orban announced his visit to the Russian capital with a picture from the airport, adding: 'The peace mission continues. Second stop: Moscow.' It comes less than a week after Hungary assumed the six-month rotating presidency of the Council of the EU.
The European External Action Service said that Orban's visit to Moscow was taking place without 'any mandate from the EU Council' while European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen claimed that it would not resolve the Ukrainian crisis, writing on X that only unity and determination "will pave the path to a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in Ukraine" - and adding that "appeasement will not stop Putin".
Earlier this week, Orban visited Kiev and urged Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky to 'take a break', have a ceasefire and 'continue negotiations' - although admitted the response to his suggestion had been 'frank'.
Deputy Head of the Ukrainian presidential office Igor Zhovkva said that the ceasefire issue could not be 'considered in isolation' from other aspects of the conflict settlement.
Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February 2022 after recognising the independence of the DPR and LPR, claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.
Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow.