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More civilians were killed and injured in 2025 than in the previous year.
U.S. aid to Ukraine fell by 99 percent in 2025 compared with the year before, according to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a German research center.
More missiles and drones are hitting city centers.
Moscow has practically destroyed Ukraine’s power grid during the country’s harshest winter in more than a decade.
The war has grown worse for Ukrainians since Mr. Trump returned to the White House, not better.
President Trump repeatedly promised during his campaign that he would end the war in Ukraine in one day.
He said the United States and Europe could continue to have a partnership if European nations changed their liberal approaches to many issues.
“We’re not asking any country in the world to isolate themselves from anybody,” he said.
Mr. Trump has spoken glowingly of the autocratic leaders of both of those large powers.
The American president granted Hungary a one-year exemption from the sanctions the United States has imposed on nations buying Russian oil.
The European Commission decided in 2023 to withhold billions of euros of funding for Hungary because of concerns about corruption, democratic backsliding and the erosion of the legal system under Mr. Orban.
That decision is being reviewed by courts of the European Union.
On Sunday, Mr. Rubio met in Bratislava, Slovakia, with Robert Fico, the country’s populist prime minister.
Mr. Rubio said he did not want to see European nations “shackled by guilt and shame,” a term that echoed the language of the far-right party Alternative for Germany, or AfD.
Their critical views of the European Union and of Ukraine also align with those of top Trump administration officials.
Mr. Orban has criticized European support of Ukraine in its war with Russia, drawing denunciations from Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky.
“We must acknowledge this campaign in Hungary has an international dimension,” he said.
The visit to Budapest was Mr. Rubio’s last stop in a three-nation tour of Europe.
He said Russia would never have done its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 if Mr. Trump had been president then, and he offered Hungary as a venue for peace talks.
Mr. Rubio arrived just after the start of the official campaign, further demonstrating the willingness of the Trump administration to insert itself into the domestic politics of other countries, whether it be Hungary, Brazil, Argentina or Japan.
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