Justin Spike, AP Reporter

JUSTIN SPIKE

Reporter

Spike is an Associated Press reporter based in Budapest, Hungary.
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, European leaders attending the ceremony at the memorial to the fallen Ukrainian soldiers on Independence Square in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)
Western leaders visit Kyiv and pledge military support against Russia on the war’s 3rd anniversary
 
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy answers media questions during his press conference, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Zelenskyy says progress made on reaching an agreement with the US on rare minerals deal
 
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrives for an EU summit at the Egmont Palace in Brussels, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (Nicolas Tucat, Pool Photo via AP)
Hungarians will decide whether Ukraine can join the European Union, Orbán says
 
President Donald Trump meets with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Trump Tower, Sept. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
After years of firm support, 10 days upended the US approach to Ukraine
 
U.S. Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg, right, and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shake hands during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A news conference between Zelenskyy and Trump’s Ukraine envoy is canceled as tension rise
 
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky gives a press conference in Kyiv, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (Tetiana Dzhafarova/Pool Photo via AP)
Trump says Ukraine started the war that’s killing its citizens. What are the facts?
 
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky gives a press conference in Kyiv, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (Tetiana Dzhafarova/Pool Photo via AP)
Trump and Zelenskyy trade barbs as US-Ukraine relations sour over the war with Russia
 
Ukrainian servicemen fire an MRLS BM-21 'Grad' towards Russian army positions near Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (Oleg Petrasiuk/Ukraine's 24th Mechanised Brigade via AP)
Many weary Ukrainians long for an end to the war but now fear it will come on unfavorable terms
 
In this photo provided by Ukraine's 24th Mechanised Brigade press service, Ukrainian servicemen prepare to fire an MRLS BM-21 'Grad' towards Russian army positions near Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (Oleg Petrasiuk/Ukraine's 24th Mechanised Brigade via AP)
Top Russian and American officials will hold talks on ending the Ukraine war without Kyiv
 
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in the Oval Office of the White House, May 13, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Hungary’s transformation into an ‘electoral autocracy’ has parallels to Trump’s second term
 
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Alice Weidel, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party's candidate for chancellor, not pictured, hold a press conference following their meeting in the government headquarters in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)
Hungary’s Orbán predicts Trump will bring Russia back into Western fold after end of Ukraine war
 
Alice Weidel, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party's candidate for chancellor, left, and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban shake hands during a press conference following their meeting in the government headquarters in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)
Hungary’s Orbán meets head of far-right German party AfD, calling her ‘the future of Germany’
 
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrives for an EU summit at the Egmont Palace in Brussels, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
Hungary’s Orbán says he will do away with pro-democracy and rights groups receiving U.S. aid
 
Visitors read the names of the local victims of the holocaust inscribed on the Wall of Remembrance at the Pasti Street Orthodox Synagogue in Debrecen, northeastern Hungary, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. (Zsolt Czegledi/MTI via AP)
Hungarian Jews remember Holocaust tragedy 80 years after liberation of Auschwitz
 
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban addresses media during his visit to Bratislava, Slovakia, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
Hungary wants the EU to intervene in a gas dispute with Ukraine
 
Minister heading the Prime Minister's Office Gergely Gulyas speaks during the weekly government briefing at the Prime Minister's Cabinet Office in Budapest, Hungary, 23 January 2025, to announce that an investigation had started concerning multiple bomb threats at schools earlier in the day. (Lajos Soos/MTI via AP)
Police in Hungary investigate bomb threats affecting over 240 schools
 
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks during his annual international press conference in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos)
Hungarian minister sanctioned by US ‘strengthened’ by the penalty, Prime Minister Orbán says
 
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban addresses a media conference at the end of an EU summit in Brussels, Dec. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Havana)
US sanctions top Hungarian official for alleged corruption while in office
 
General view of the Bulgarian-Greek border checkpoint of Kulata in Bulgaria, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024, after European Union ministers agreed to let Bulgaria and Romania fully integrate into Europe's ID-check free travel zone, known as the Schengen area, by lifting land border controls from next year. ( AP Photo/Valentina Petrova)
Ceremonies mark full membership of Bulgaria and Romania in Europe’s Schengen travel zone
 
This handout photo long exposure shot shows the flight of a flock of autonomous drones during an experiment near Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021. (AP Photo/HO/Eotvos Lorand University)
Data on animal movements help Hungarian researchers create a swarm of autonomous drones
 
FILE - In this photo released by Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, shakes hands with Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto on the sidelines of the OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) Ministerial Council meeting, in Skopje, North Macedonia, on Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023. (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP, File)
Hungarian official says there is ‘no consensus’ on inviting Ukraine to join NATO
 
Israeli soccer team prepares for closed-door match in Hungary after attacks on fans in Amsterdam
 
FILE - From left: Yordanka Chobanova, the head of the Representation of the European Commission in Bulgaria, Maria Gabriel, deputy Prime Minister, Nikolay Denkov, Prime Minister, Jesus Caballero, Sofia Airport's CEO, press the red button during an official opening of Schengen borders by air, at Sofia airport, Bulgaria, Sunday, March 31, 2024. Hungarian officials say Bulgaria and Romania could become full members of Europe’s Schengen travel zone starting at the beginning of 2025. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova, File)
Bulgaria and Romania ‘one step closer’ to full membership in Schengen zone, Hungary says
 
FILE - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attend a press conference after their meeting in Jerusalem, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, Pool, File)
Hungary’s Orbán vows to disregard international arrest warrant for Netanyahu
 
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto, rear left, and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, rear right, attend a meeting with Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov at Yntymak Ordo State Residence in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Vladimir Voronin)
Hungarian official criticizes Biden decision allowing Ukraine to use US weapons to strike Russia
 
Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks during a plenary session at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
Hungary’s Orbán says sanctions on Russia will destroy EU economy
 
A friend holds a candle while remembering Mackenzie Michalski, an 31-year-old American tourist who was murdered while on vacation, during a candlelight vigil in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, Nov. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)
Family of 31-year-old American tourist killed in Hungary’s capital mourns loss, suspect in custody
 
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center left, speaks with Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban, center right, as he arrives for the European Political Community (EPC) Summit at the Puskas Arena in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Petr Josek)
Hungary’s leader Orbán predicts Trump will end support for Ukraine in comments before EU summit
 
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center, and Latvia's Prime Minister Evika Silina, right, arrive for the European Political Community (EPC) Summit at the Puskas Arena in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Petr Josek)
50 European leaders assess how Trump will affect their fortunes and seek a common stance on Russia
 
FILE - President Donald Trump welcomes Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to the White House in Washington, May 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
Trump’s second term could realign US diplomacy toward authoritarian leaders
 
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