Hungary ready to host Ukraine-Russia peace talks, foreign minister says


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  • Thursday, 21 Aug 2025

FILE PHOTO: Hungary's Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto attends a joint press conference with Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha (not pictured), in Budapest, Hungary September 30, 2024. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo/File Photo

BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungary has offered to host peace talks between Russia and Ukraine twice, and the offer still stands, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in a podcast broadcast on Facebook on Thursday.

Szijjarto reacted to reports that the White House was eyeing the Hungarian capital Budapest as a venue for a possible trilateral meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

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