{"id":50016,"date":"2026-04-14T01:29:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T01:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=50016"},"modified":"2026-04-14T01:29:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T01:29:41","slug":"ukraine-war-briefing-hungarys-new-leader-says-he-would-ask-putin-to-end-the-killing-in-ukraine-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=50016","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war briefing: Hungary\u2019s new leader says he would ask Putin to end the killing in Ukraine | Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/13\/peter-magyar-election-win-hungary-eu-ukraine-russia\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">P\u00e9ter Magyar, Hungary\u2019s new leader<\/a>, <\/strong><strong>said he would ask <\/strong><strong>Vladimir Putin to end the killing in Ukraine if they speak, and plans to review Hungary\u2019s Russian energy contracts and renegotiate them if needed.<\/strong> Magyar said he would talk to the Russian president, but won\u2019t initiate contact. \u201cIf Vladimir Putin calls, I\u2019ll pick up the phone,\u201d he said in his first news conference after his landslide win against Viktor Orb\u00e1n, a Putin ally. \u201cIf we did talk, I could tell him that it would be nice to end the killing after four years and end the war. It would probably be a short phone conversation and I don\u2019t think he would end the war on my advice,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/14\/ukraine-war-briefing-peter-magyar-hungary-putin\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>P\u00e9ter Magyar, Hungary\u2019s new leader, said he would ask Vladimir Putin to end the killing in Ukraine if they speak, and plans to review Hungary\u2019s Russian&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}