From the Politico:
"Donald Tusk trashes Budapest as possible Ukraine talks venue
“Maybe I’m superstitious, but this time I would try to find another place,” says Polish PM as he recalls 1994 memorandum.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Wednesday criticized the idea of
Budapest being a potential venue for peace talks between Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Budapest? Not everyone may remember this, but in 1994 Ukraine
already got assurances of territorial integrity from the US, Russia and
the UK. In Budapest,” Tusk said. “Maybe I’m superstitious, but this time I would try to find another place.”...
Hungary would be an uneasy venue for Ukraine. The 1994 memorandum,
signed there by the U.S., U.K., Ukraine and Russia, pledged to respect
Kyiv’s sovereignty in exchange for its nuclear disarmament. But Putin’s
2014 assault on Ukraine and the lack of military support from
signatories rendered the guarantees essentially meaningless.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, a close ally of Trump who has continued to cultivate ties with the Kremlin despite Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, has not yet publicly commented.
On Feb. 25, 2022, one day after Russia attacked Ukraine, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó suggested Budapest even then as a safe location “for both the Ukrainian and Russian sides.”
Russian officials have tempered expectations that any sort of encounter between Putin and Zelenskyy was on the horizon..."
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