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Trump lets Orban buy Russian oil
Bangkok Post
|November 09, 2025
UNITED STATES GIVES HUNGARY ONE-YEAR EXEMPTION FROM SANCTIONS
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NOTHING BUT PRAISE: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and US President Donald Trump held a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington on Friday.
US President Donald Trump handed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban a one-year exemption from sanctions for buying Russian oil and gas after the close right-wing allies held a chummy White House meeting on Friday.
Mr Trump slapped sanctions on Moscow's two largest oil companies in October after losing patience with Russian President Vladimir Putin over his refusal to end the nearly four-year-old invasion of Ukraine.
But while Mr Trump has pushed other European countries to stop buying oil that he says funds Moscow's war machine, Mr Orban used his first trip to the White House since Mr Trump's return to power to push for special treatment.
As they heaped praise on each other, Mr Trump said he was considering an exemption because landlocked Hungary had to rely on pipelines that made it dependent on Russian oil and gas. “As you know they don’t have the advantage of having sea,’ Mr Trump told reporters.
This story is from the November 09, 2025 edition of Bangkok Post.
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