Orban says Putin has low expectations for ceasefire before serious peace talks

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that Russian President Vladimir Putin told him he did not have positive expectations of enacting a ceasefire agreement before serious peace talks begin, Report informs referring to The Kyiv Independent.

Orban relayed the comments in an interview published July 7 with the editor-in-chief of the Swiss outlet Die Weltwoche.

"He said that he did not have positive expectations about (such a ceasefire.) Zelenskyy said that he did not have positive expectations because the Russians would use it against Ukraine, and Putin - that the Ukrainians would use this pause against Russia," Orban said.

Orban visited Putin in Moscow on July 5, just days after meeting President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv.

His trips came shortly after Hungary acquired the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union.