Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said Europe's pro-war, liberal elite will do everything in its power to prevent a peace agreement to end the Ukraine war, which is now closer than ever.

Minister Szijjártó said in an interview with Mediacentrum Debrecen on Friday that a US-Russia agreement was needed for the Ukraine war to end. He added that this had not been possible earlier because the previous, pro-war administration of the US did not want to end the conflict but continually "added fuel to the fire".

"Currently there is a pro-peace US president and US administration, so there is a chance to end the war," Minister Szijjártó said.

The foreign minister welcomed the fact that there had been talks between the [American and Russian] presidents over the phone and also welcomed that preparatory talks for a personal meeting would be held on various levels.

He said the chance for making peace "has never been this close", adding however that the process "will not be easy and would not happen overnight, either".

Minister Szijjártó said he expected that Donald Trump, being a strong president, would be able to reach a deal with the Russian president and no matter what the European liberal leaders and Brussels bureaucrats do, the agreement will be signed.

At the same time, he said it was a problem that Europe was "again going against realities, and the liberal European leaders are simply unwilling and unable to understand that what they are doing is now out of season, and it would be best if they stopped, because they are only digging deeper and causing greater damage".

"Practically what happens is that a European security challenge will be closed in a way that Europe will not get a word in it," he said. "This is where Europe and the European Union has been taken by the Commission under the leadership of [ Ursula] von der Leyen, and the liberal leaders who were trying to play a game of war in Europe over the last years, and they considered a war that no European country has anything to do with except Ukraine as their own," Minister Szijjártó said.