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Hungary vowed to ensure Vladimir Putin’s entry for a planned Budapest summit with Trump, despite an EU airspace ban on Russian flights. Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó said Budapest would secure “successful negotiations,” yet Hungary remains bound by the ICC until June 2026 and would be obliged to arrest Putin under its warrant. The European Commission called any talks that advance peace in Ukraine positive. The meeting looms amid debate over supplying Ukraine with US Tomahawk missiles—backed by Volodymyr Zelensky, opposed by Moscow—and as a former US ambassador to Nato said the missile issue likely triggered the talks.

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