Budapest, Hungary – As Polish, Czech, and Slovenian leaders made a perilous journey to Kyiv on Tuesday in a show of support for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was in Budapest rallying tens of thousands of supporters in advance of elections next month.
Speaking in front of the Hungarian Parliament Building, Orbán used the occasion to justify his arms-length response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24. “We cannot get between the Ukrainian anvil and the Russian hammer,” he told the crowd who had bused in from across the country to hear the illiberal icon speak.
