U.S. President Donald Trump's administration will reconnect Russia with the economies and energy networks of Western countries if the war in Ukraine, now nearly three years old, comes to an end, Hungary's nationalist prime minister said on Friday.

If President Trump is not able to find a solution, that war could become easily an Afghanistan for the European Union[…]Endless war, endless conflict, no way out … eating up energy, human lives,

On the issue of Europe being left out of talks on Ukraine, Orbán — who on Thursday mocked EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas’s stance on Ukraine as “worthless” — said that international politics is “tough, interest-based, often ruthless.”