BUDAPEST, December 11. /TASS/. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban believes that his telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin took place at the most dangerous period of the Ukrainian conflict.

"This morning, I had an hour-long telephone conversation with President Putin. We are living in the most dangerous weeks of the war [in Ukraine]. We are using all available diplomatic means to contribute to a ceasefire and peace talks," he wrote on his Facebook (a social media site banned in Russia since it is owned by Meta corporation deemed extremist by the Russian authorities).

The Hungarian prime minister did not specify what issues he had discussed with the Russian president. Orban's press service did not respond to a TASS correspondent's request for comment.