{"id":1379309,"date":"2026-04-07T17:31:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/us-vice-president-vance-made-controversial-statements-about-ukraine-and-the-eu-during-his-visit-to-hungary\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T17:31:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:31:33","slug":"us-vice-president-vance-made-controversial-statements-about-ukraine-and-the-eu-during-his-visit-to-hungary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/us-vice-president-vance-made-controversial-statements-about-ukraine-and-the-eu-during-his-visit-to-hungary\/","title":{"rendered":"US Vice President Vance made controversial statements about Ukraine and the EU during his visit to Hungary."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"122\" data-end=\"434\"><strong>During his visit to <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Hungary,<\/span><\/span> US Vice President <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">J.D. Vance<\/span><\/span> made a number of resonant statements on Ukraine and <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">the European Union<\/span><\/span> , and also openly supported the country&#8217;s Prime Minister <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Viktor Orban<\/span><\/span> on the eve of the elections.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"436\" data-end=\"499\"> This became known during a joint <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/iU0SEPSwxQA?si=ueheEi7Op7SVnAvL\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">press conference<\/a> of politicians.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"501\" data-end=\"745\"> Vance claimed that there are allegedly elements within Ukrainian intelligence &#8220;trying to influence the outcome of elections in the US and Hungary.&#8221; He described this as &#8220;common practice,&#8221; essentially echoing narratives previously voiced by Hungarian authorities.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"747\" data-end=\"917\"> The vice president also claimed that certain representatives of the Ukrainian system allegedly campaigned in support of Democrats ahead of the 2024 US presidential election.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"919\" data-end=\"1185\"> Vance directed particular criticism at <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">the European Union<\/span><\/span> . He claimed that &#8220;bureaucrats in Brussels&#8221; are allegedly trying to weaken Hungary out of personal animosity toward Orb\u00e1n, specifically through economic pressure and interference in the country&#8217;s domestic politics.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1187\" data-end=\"1382\"> Furthermore, Vence effectively put Orban on par with US President <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Donald Trump<\/span><\/span> , stating that it was these two leaders who \u201cdid the most to end the war in Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1384\" data-end=\"1618\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> The vice president also expressed confidence that Orban would win the upcoming elections and rejected accusations of his pro-Russian stance, blaming Europe&#8217;s energy problems on the EU&#8217;s own previous policies.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1384\" data-end=\"1618\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> Read on Censor.NET:<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/novym-prezydentom-ssha-bude-vens-abo-rubio-chomu-treba-do-tsoho-hotuvatys\/\">Will Vance or Rubio be the next US President?<\/a> Why should we prepare?<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During his visit to Hungary, US Vice President J.D. Vance made a number of resonant statements on Ukraine and the European Union , and also openly supported the country&#8217;s Prime Minister Viktor Orban on the eve of the elections. This became known during a joint press conference of politicians. Vance claimed that there are allegedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1379303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875,76885,76894],"class_list":["post-1379309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-policy","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1379309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1379303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1379309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}