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Vice President Vance delivers a message in Budapest about the "moral cooperation" between the United States and Hungary, under the leadership of President Trump and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. "There is so much that unites the United States and Hungary, and unfortunately, there have been too few people who have been willing to stand up for the values of Western civilization."

Hungarian opposition leader Péter Magyar today accused the U.S. of meddling in the country’s upcoming election, hitting out at Vice President JD Vance’s visit to Budapest just days before voters head to the polls

Bloomberg just dropped the Orbán tapes and it reads like a bad fanfic. Hungary’s prime minister spent a phone call with Putin calling him a “lion,” casting himself as the helpful little “mouse,” offering Budapest as a venue to end the war on Russia’s terms, and closing with “I am at your service"

VP Vance departs for Budapest, tells reporters he's looking forward to seeing his “good friend Victor [Orban].” “We'll talk about any number of things related to the US Hungary relationship. Obviously, I'm sure Europe and Ukraine and all the all the other stuff will figure in pretty prominently.”

Serbia’s top military brass said Ukraine was not behind an incident involving explosives near a gas pipeline with Hungary, in a rebuke to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who heavily implied Kyiv was involved

Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs: We categorically reject attempts to falsely link Ukraine to the incident with explosives found near the Turkstream pipeline in Serbia. Ukraine has nothing to do with this. Most probably, a Russian false-flag operation as part of Moscow’s heavy interference in Hungarian elections

Vučić: Explosives of destructive power found near gas infrastructure connecting Serbia and Hungary; Orban convenes Defense Council

Hungarian PM Viktor Orban said authorities found an explosive device on a gas pipeline connecting Serbia and Hungary, along with activation tools. An investigation was launched and an emergency defense council meeting was convened

JD Vance to visit Hungary next week in show of support for Orbán ahead of tight election

Fresh polls ahead of Hungary’s April 12 parliamentary elections show the opposition TISZA party’s lead over Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz is holding or widening

Clashes at Euronews as the broadcaster and news website removes a story over companies linked to Hungarian leader and Euronews' owner

Ukraine has yet to give access to European engineers to Druzhba Pipeline - Deputy PM Ukraine confirms. 'The proces is pending' - Taras Kachka tells Dutch @BNR. The EU inspection team, sent by Commission, is reportedly waiting for over 2 weeks now

Hungary's top diplomat Péter Szijjártó admitted today that he spoke to Russian officials as EU ministers considered new economic measures targeting Moscow

Viktor Orbán angrily responded to protesters who booed him at a rally in opposition-led Győr. He accused them of promoting Ukrainian interests and wanting to send “Hungarians’ money to Ukraine,” as his campaign follows a path-dependent strategy blaming everything on Ukraine

The Hungarian government has filed charges against one of the country’s most prominent investigative journalists @panyiszabolcs, accusing him of spying for Ukraine after allegations that Budapest shared confidential EU information with Moscow

Hungary is blocking gas supplies to Ukraine through the Druzhba pipeline. Orban stated this: Until Ukraine ensures the movement of oil, they will not receive gas from Hungary.

Donald Tusk: The news that Orbán’s people inform Moscow about EU Council meetings in every detail shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. We’ve had our suspicions about that for a long time. That’s one reason why I take the floor only when strictly necessary and say just as much as necessary

Orbán called the Nord Stream explosion and the drone attack on TurkStream acts of terrorism by Ukraine. The Hungarian Prime Minister noted that if Kyiv attacks TurkStream again, Budapest will declare it state terrorism and take international action.

Vice President JD Vance is planning to visit Hungary in the coming days in a show of support for the country's long-time nationalist prime ​minister Viktor Orban, who is facing a difficult election next month

Ursula von der Leyen: Statement with @eucopresident on the Druzhba pipelinen. Following the renewed Russian strikes on January 27 on the Druzhba pipeline, leading to the interruption of crude oil supplies to Hungary and Slovakia, we have engaged in intense discussions with Member States and Ukraine at all levels to restore the flow of oil to Hungary and Slovakia. The EU has offered Ukraine technical support and funding. The Ukrainians have welcomed and accepted this offer. European experts are available immediately. Our priority is to ensure energy security for all European citizens. In this sense, we will continue to work with the concerned parties on alternative routes for the transit of non-Russian crude oil to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe

Tens of thousands demonstrate ahead of parliamentary elections in Hungary

Foreign Minister of Hungary says the Embassy in Ukraine sent a note informing about delegation visit and requested meeting with minister of energy of Ukraine

The group of Hungarians who arrived to inspect Druzhba pipeline does not have official status, - Ukrainian Foreign Ministry

Putin: Russia will continue supplying oil and gas to countries that are reliable buyers, including Slovakia and Hungary

Hungary had released 7 Ukrainian citizens captured earlier

Ukrainian Foreign Minister: Today in Budapest, Hungarian authorities took seven Ukrainian citizens hostage. The reasons are still unknown, as well as their current well-being, or the possibility of contacting them. These seven Ukrainians are employees of state-owned Oschadbank, who were operating two bank cars transiting between Austria and Ukraine and carrying cash as part of regular services between state banks. In fact, we are talking about Hungary taking hostages and stealing money. If this is the “force” announced earlier today by Mr Orban, then this is a force of a criminal gang. This is state terrorism and racketeering. We have already sent an official note demanding an immediate release of our citizens. We will also address the European Union with the request to provide a clear qualification of Hungary’s unlawful actions, hostage-taking, and robbery.

PM of Hungary Orban: There will be no deals, no compromise. We will break the Ukrainian oil blockade by force. Hungary’s energy will soon flow again through the Friendship pipeline

Hungary’s ruling party has accused the opposition of conspiring with the EU and Ukraine to deprive Budapest of access to cheap Russian oil — a cushion against price spikes.The move is aimed at clawing back ground ahead of the April elections

Hungary blocks the passage of a €90 billion European loan to Ukraine