What’s behind Viktor Orban’s surprise visit to Kyiv?

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban made a surprise visit to Kyiv on Tuesday and met with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. It’s Orban’s first visit to Ukraine since Russia’s invasion more than two years ago. Marco Werman speaks to Yaroslav Trofimov of the Wall Street Journal about how the fraught relationship between Kyiv and Budapest goes way back and concerns the Hungarian minority in Ukraine. 

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