The Hungarian leader said he has managed to convince US President Donald Trump to grant his country a full exemption from sanctions for the purchase of Russian energy, after detailing to him the dire consequences it would have on the Hungarian people.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán says his country has received an exemption from U.S. sanctions on Russian energy after a meeting in the White House with President Donald Trump.

Taras Kachka, Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, has said that the main reason Budapest blocks Ukraine's progress towards the EU is Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's political stance rather than issues concerning the Hungarian minority in Ukraine,