Foreign Ministry on Hungary's idea of a “Christmas truce”: there are no realistic proposals

There is no real "Christmas truce" on the table. Ukraine has repeatedly asked Hungary not to manipulate the topic of war, deaths and the Christmas holiday. This was announced by Foreign Ministry spokesman Georgiy Tykhyi during a briefing, according to a correspondent of UNN.

"There is no real Christmas truce on the table. This is a PR stunt by the Hungarian side, which we call 'peace PR'. Why are they doing this? For their own internal political reasons. There are no realistic proposals on the table. We have repeatedly asked the Hungarian side not to engage in manipulations on the topic of war, deaths and the Christmas holiday. These are just cynical manipulations," Tychy said.

He noted that the Ukrainian side had asked the Hungarian side to stop these manipulations, publicly and not publicly.

Addendum

Hungarian Prime Minister Orban claimedthat he had offered Ukraine a "Christmas truce" and a prisoner exchange, but according to the Presidential Office, Ukraine was not informed of such initiatives. The Presidential Office added that negotiations on the exchange of prisoners have been ongoing for two weeks and are not related to Orban's statements.

Zelenskyy criticized Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's attempts to "put pressure on Putin." 

Subsequently, Hungarian Prime Minister Orban made another statement about the "Christmas truce." The President's Office once again responded that "no one needs a race from Putin.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto saidthat official Kyiv had rejected a request for a conversation between Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

President Zelenskyy said yesterday, December 19 , that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's relationship with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is too "warm" to put the Russian tyrant in his place.