Earlier, Hungary’s finance minister said Budapest would hold up a final deal on a $50 billion G7 loan to Ukraine until after the U.S. presidential election by delaying its decision on the timing of the renewal of EU sanctions against Russia.

Speaking at a briefing in Strasbourg on Tuesday, Orbán said that U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, if elected, would not wait until his inauguration but would start working for peace in Ukraine right after the November 5 election, adding that European leaders would have to react to that.

Orbán, who has long endorsed Trump, also said that both direct and indirect communication was needed between the warring parties and it was a part of international politics that a third party mediates between them.

“The Hungarian intention is focusing on to manage a ceasefire as soon as possible... because we are convinced that you cannot win that war on the battlefield. Simply you cannot,” Orbán said.

“We don’t want to block anything, we just want to convince European leaders to change their strategy [on Ukraine] because the current strategy does not work,” he added.

Days after Hungary took over the EU’s rotating presidency in July, Orbán set out on a self-styled peace mission which included a visit to Moscow and Kyiv, triggering a backlash from European leaders.

Orbán’s press conference was briefly interrupted by a politician from the opposition Democratic Coalition (DK), who ran into the room shouting and accusing the premier of “betraying” his country, selling it out to Russia and China.

He was escorted out by security.