Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will travel to Moscow next week and meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, he calls gas negotiations the main goal.

According to the Hungary Today portal, Orban said this in an interview with the Hungarian Kossuth Radio..

Viktor Orban said that in the context of record energy prices, Hungary wants to increase its energy security by increasing the volume of gas supplied under the Hungarian-Russian contract from September 2021.

Orban responded to the opposition's reproaches that he was going to the Russian Federation "

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Orban noted that the talks "

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In September, Hungary, despite criticism of Ukraine, signed a new long-term agreement on gas supplies to Russia. In response, Ukraine canceled the planned meeting of the intergovernmental commission in Budapest.