Hungarian Prime Minister said Ukraine has lost the war against Russia, ahead of a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the conflict.

“(Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky) has lost this war,” Viktor Orbán said on Wednesday.

“We are talking like this was a situation of war with an open end,” the Hungarian leader said, adding that this assessment was false.

“The Ukrainians have lost this war, Russia has won the war.”

Orbán, who has repeatedly vetoed EU sanctions on Russia over the war in Ukraine, claimed that Kiev would not capitulate as long as it was being supplied with weapons and funds by Western partners.

“Otherwise this war would have been over long ago,” the right-wing politician said.

On Tuesday, Budapest declined to sign a joint statement by its 26 fellow European Union allies welcoming efforts by Trump to end Russia’s war on Ukraine.

The statement demanded that Ukraine’s territorial integrity be ensured, saying that “international borders must not be changed by force.”

Orbán, justifying his government’s refusal to back the declaration, said it attempts to “set conditions for negotiations to which EU leaders were not even invited”.

The meeting between Trump and Putin would take place in Anchorage, Alaska on Friday.

The meeting has sparked fears in Kiev and the rest of Europe that the two leaders could strike an agreement that would force Ukraine into making territorial concessions.

A move that Zelensky has categorically ruled out.

Orbán, in a post on Facebook, said it was “sad enough that the EU has been pushed to the sidelines.”

“The only thing worse would be if we were giving instructions from the sidelines,” he wrote.

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