Hungary

Budapest, October 11, 2026. The Hungarian press is treating Donald Trump's statement as much as an episode of the fuel crisis as an attack on Kyiv. On Saturday, October 10, in front of journalists at the White House, the American president said, according to Telex and 444: "I propose that they find a new leader, capable of concluding an agreement." Volodymyr Zelensky had, in his opinion, "many opportunities" without ever signing anything. Trump repeated that the war would not have broken out if he had been in the White House in 2022, judging it to be born of incompetence.

The three media outlets immediately linked these comments to Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries. Index reports that Trump advised Zelensky to put an end to this and claimed to have warned him that there are "many other targets." Telex specifies that, for Trump, Kyiv wants to create a global problem by continuing to authorize these strikes.

It is the energy context that structures the narrative. Index indicates that the US Treasury announced on Friday, October 9, the temporary lifting of sanctions on Russian diesel, after a very successful meeting with Vladimir Putin, who would commit to delivering large quantities over several months. 444 specifies that the suspension runs until April 2027 and that Zelensky judged the agreement "completely terrible," "neither just nor honest." The site explains that the strikes aim to prevent Moscow from exporting diesel and financing the war, to the point that Russia briefly became an importer.

Telex recalls the pressure on the markets: the G7 announced at the beginning of October the release of 100 million barrels from European strategic reserves, and the partial closure of the Strait of Ormuz weighs on supply. 444 notes that diesel costs twice as much as in January 2025 in the United States, that voters are sensitive to this, and that Republicans "are on the verge of losing" the elections on November 3.

Index then expands to Europe. Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis judges the Trump-Putin agreement to be "a slap in the face for Europe" and says he understands that Trump is "on the eve of elections." Citing the Kyiv Independent via Unian, Index writes that the agreement has killed the idea of an energy truce: the Ukrainian delegation, which arrived in the United States without being notified, would have had "the impression of a trap."