Vladimir Putin talks about the "historical rights" of the Hungarian minority in Ukraine. “I never spoke about it to Viktor Orban,” declared the Russian president during the interview he gave to Tucker Carlson.

Putin recounted a “road trip” he had taken in his youth in Transcarpathia, in western Ukraine. In the flood of dates, names of tsars, cities and regions listed, the word "Hungary" resonated several times in the mouth of the leader.