Hungarian election victor ‘would speak with Putin to end war in Ukraine’

Peter Magyar speaks to the media in Budapest (Denes Erdos/AP)

Hungarian election winner Peter Magyar said on that if Russian president Vladimir Putin were to initiate a call with him, he would speak with him and tell him to end the war in Ukraine.

“If Vladimir Putin calls, I’ll pick up the phone,” he said at his first news conference after his landslide win against prime minister Viktor Orban, a Putin ally.