P resident Donald Trump welcomed Hungary's autocratic leader Viktor Orban to the White House on Friday, praising him repeatedly as a "great leader" as met sat to discuss trade and Russia's war in Ukraine. "I like and respect him," Trump said as he and Orban sat for lunch with their teams in the Cabinet Room.

US President Donald Trump says he will consider allowing Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban to buy Russian oil, in an exemption from sanctions aimed at helping to end the Ukraine war.

Before the sanctions were announced last month, Orbán told his longtime ally that cutting Russia’s supplies would bring Hungary’s economy “to its knees.”