Orbán calls for quick ceasefire in Ukraine, prompting Zelenskyy's rebuke: 'Nonsense'

Viktor Orbán's proposal for a quick ceasefire in Ukraine led to a rebuke by Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who called it "nonsense and disharmony".

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00:00The debate about the impossible high fire in Ukraine has been one of the first consequences

00:05here at the summit of the European political community of the electoral victory of Donald

00:09Trump in the United States and has been his best friend in the European Union, the Prime

00:14Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban, in charge of putting it on the table.

00:18The first precondition of every peace is communication and the precondition of communication is the

00:27ceasefire. That's the logic. So what I'm arguing in favor to have a ceasefire which provide

00:35room and time for the voting parties to have communication and to start to negotiate about

00:43the peace.

00:44Something that the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky did not like, who has also attended

00:48this meeting here in Pushkas Arena in Budapest.

00:51A

01:12clash that happened just when the President of the European Commission Ursula von der

01:16Leyen was holding a call with Donald Trump in which she was willing to address geopolitical

01:21challenges such as the one that Ukraine represents.

01:24Aida Sánchez Alonso, Euronews, Budapest.