Polish President Karol Nawrocki has cancelled a meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán due to the latter's trip to meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

Source: Marcin Przydacz, Head of the International Policy Bureau of the Polish President's Chancellery, as reported by European Pravda

Quote: "Referring in his policy to the legacy of president Lech Kaczyński, who emphasised that Europe's security depends on solidarity, including in the energy sector, in connection with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's visit to Moscow and its context, President Nawrocki decided to limit the programme of his visit to Hungary exclusively to the Visegrád Group summit in Esztergom."

Details: Przydacz added that at the summit, alongside the presidents of Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary, Nawrocki will discuss security and cooperation in Central Europe.

Przydacz also stressed that the Polish president consistently advocates for seeking real ways to end Russia's war against Ukraine.

For reference: On 3 December, Nawrocki will travel to Hungary for a two-day visit to participate in a summit of the Visegrád Group leaders. On 4 December, the Polish president, accompanied by his wife, was scheduled to pay an official visit to Budapest and meet, among others, with Orbán.

Background:

• Earlier, Przydacz announced that Nawrocki would not meet Orbán, and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk commented on the planned meeting: "Orbán goes to Putin, Nawrocki to Orbán. There is chaos in the negotiations on the 'Witkoff plan' and a political crisis in Kyiv. Fatal combination."
• On 28 November in Moscow, during the meeting with Putin, Orbán called for a swift end to the war in Ukraine, while signalling expectations of affordable and stable oil and gas supplies.
• Orbán has claimed that the only possible way to end the Russo-Ukrainian war is for Ukraine to become a "buffer state".

Support Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon !