JUST IN: Russia loses its Hungarian “ally”, weapons regain their rights
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Did you miss the latest events on the war in Ukraine? 20 Minutes takes stock for you every evening. Here is the gist of this Monday, April 13, 2026, on the 1,510th day of the conflict. The fact of the dayGood kiss from Budapest. The large victory of the center right and the pro-European Péter Magyar in the Hungarian legislative elections pushes to the sidelines the nationalist Viktor Orbán, the European leader who fought most persistently to put spokes in the wheels of kyiv within the European Union. This “friend” of Vladimir Putin blocked in particular by his veto, and for several months, the European loan of 90 billion euros promised to Ukraine and the new package of EU sanctions against Russia. European leaders who are cautious about aid to kyiv remain in power – Roberto Fico in Slovakia or Andrej Babis in the Czech Republic – but Moscow has lost a strong ally. The Kremlin has also taken note with a certain laconicism. “Hungary has chosen. We respect this choice. We intend to continue our pragmatic contacts with the new Hungarian authorities,” declared Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov. Today’s statement “This is a country at war, it is completely out of the question for the European Union to admit a country at war. »Péter Magyar, the future Hungarian center-right Prime Minister, is better disposed towards kyiv than Viktor Orbán, but he does not open all the doors wide. It “excludes” any accelerated accession of Ukraine to the EU.The figure98. The number of drones launched overnight by Russia on Ukraine, according to kyiv’s count. Moscow, for its part, claims to have intercepted 33 Ukrainian drones. The Easter truce only lasted 32 hours, and still, the two camps accuse each other of having cheerfully violated it. The trendA scent of demonization. After that of judo, the international swimming federation announces that Russian and Belarusian swimmers are once again authorized to compete under their colors and with their anthems. They had been banned from international pools in February 2022, at the start of the war, and could swim since September 2023 during international competitions but under a neutral banner. Our file on the war in UkraineWorld Aquatics specifies that these swimmers must, however, pass “at least four successive anti-doping controls carried out in partnership with the International Testing Agency (ITA)” and have undergone “a thorough background check. » “We are determined to ensure that swimming pools and bodies of water remain places where athletes from all nations can come together for peaceful competition,” said World Aquatics President Husain Al Musallam, quoted in the press release. The next World Swimming Championships are due to take place in Budapest in 2027.
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