The newly elected EU Council President, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban visited Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow to discuss the war in Ukraine which caused major outrage among his fellow European Union leaders. At a press conference with Putin in Moscow, Orban said Hungary viewed its six-month stint holding the rotating European Council presidency as a peace mission. "Many steps are needed to end the war, but we took the first step to restore dialogue," Orban said, adding that "points of view remained far from each other in Kyiv and Moscow." The Hungarian PM also visited Kyiv, for the first time since Russia's invasion, earlier in the week.