‘It is almost impossible to defeat Russia on the battlefield, and the next 2-3 months will be much tougher, with the number of casualties becoming even higher than in the last six months’, – Orban said in an interview with Bild

It is practically impossible to defeat Russia on the battlefield.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated in an interview with Bild.

“If you look at the soldiers, weapons, and technologies used in the war, the thought of defeating Russia is hard to even imagine. The probability of whether Russia can be defeated at all cannot be calculated,” noted the Hungarian Prime Minister.

Orbán added that the situation on the front will worsen significantly two to three months before the U.S. elections.

“There will be more weapons, and the Russians are determined. The energy of confrontation and the number of casualties will become even worse than in the last seven months, which were already terrible,” the politician explained.

Orbán claims to be on a “mission of peace” – traveling to countries involved in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and meeting with their leaders. The first country he visited was Ukraine, where he held talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky and proposed a ceasefire before negotiations. However, according to the Prime Minister, this idea did not appeal much to the Ukrainian leader.

He then traveled to Moscow and met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who reiterated the conditions for negotiations with Ukraine set forth in June: the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions, and Ukraine remaining a neutral country outside military blocs, meaning Kyiv’s renunciation of NATO membership.

On July 8, the Hungarian Prime Minister arrived in China, calling it a key force in creating conditions for peace in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Orbán met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, who stated that the international community should create conditions and facilitate the resumption of direct dialogue and negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv.