Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban has opined that Ukraine has lost the war against Russia as he looked ahead of a meeting between U.S President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has lost this war”, he said in an interview on Wednesday August 13.

“The Ukrainians have lost this war, Russia has won the war”.

“We are talking like this was a situation of war with an open end”, the Hungarian leader said, adding that this assessment was false.

Orban, who has repeatedly vetoed EU sanctions on Russia over the war on Ukraine, claimed that Kiev would not capitulate as long as it was being supplied with weapons and funds by Western partners.

“Otherwise this war would have been over long ago”, the right-wing politician said.