Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has pushed back against videos on social media being distributed by the Civic Coalition, the Polish party led by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
The party has made the videos in response to media reports about Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjárto allegedly divulging confidential information to his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, and Russian Deputy Energy Minister Pavel Sorokin.
“Orbán, arm in arm with Putin, long ago wrote himself out of Europe. We will not allow politicians enamored with Budapest to prepare the same fate for Poland!” the KO video post is captioned.
“Dear Donald Tusk, I wonder whether this video was made in Poland, or by your bosses in Berlin. I stand for what is best for the Hungarians. There was a time when you did the same for Poland,” Orbán replied on X.
Dear @donaldtusk,
I wonder whether this video was made in Poland, or by your bosses in Berlin.
I stand for what is best for the Hungarians. There was a time when you did the same for Poland. Polak, Węgier, dwa bratanki! https://t.co/an2SeUf85h
— Orbán Viktor (@PM_ViktorOrban) April 1, 2026Tusk has also recently posted via his own channel that “Hungary is and will be in the European Union. Victor Orbán and his foreign minister left Europe long ago.”
During a press conference cited by Do Rzeczy, Tusk also attacked Orbán ally and conservative president of Poland, Karol Nawrocki, as well as the Law & Justice (PiS) party that supported him, for their alleged backing of Putin at the expense of Europe.
“There’s no room for speculation here anymore. Some of you thought I was exaggerating when I said that for some reason, PiS, President Nawrocki, and Chairman Kaczyński were supporting Russia. You thought I was exaggerating, that it wasn’t that bad, but today it’s hard to doubt it. If anyone today wants the most pro-Russian government in Europe to win, it’s no longer the result of stupidity or blindness, but a conscious game, very dangerous from the point of view of Poland’s interests and the security of all of Europe. This truth must finally reach everyone,” he said.
It is not just Orbán who has pointed out Tusk’s hypocrisy, with many accounts posting past photos of Tusk with Putin.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjártó has come under fire for speaking on the sidelines of EU Council meetings with his Russian counterpart. Szijjártó has fired back that he and other member state foreign ministers regularly speak with diplomats from other countries, as that is part of the job. In a more pointed post recently, he made fun of “new” revelations covering his dialogue with Moscow as nothing other than what people already know and which he has never hidden from the public.
“Today they have made a new ‘major discovery’: they proved that I say the same publicly as I do on the phone. Nice work!” he said.
In the meantime, the new media reports are based on recordings of phone calls made by Szijjártó, which were allegedly obtained via an illegal wiretap, an operation involving at least one other EU member state and assisted by a local foreign-funded opposition journalist in Hungary, who now is facing charges of espionage and treason.
