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By Ben Aris in Berlin During a visit to Kyiv just after taking over the presidency of the European Council on July 1, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and asked him to call a ceasefire. Zelenskiy flatly refused. ‘As for a ceasefire, I have been very clear: we are at war and we cannot talk about a ceasefire just like that,’ he later clarified in an interview with Bloomberg on July 3. Zelenskiy claimed that Russia could use the truce to accumulate forces and resume military operations. ‘This is why it [a ceasefire agreement] can only be reach…

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