OREANDA-NEWS Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said goodbye to Russian President Vladimir Putin in Russian, concluding a telephone conversation in October 2025. This is reported by Bloomberg with reference to the transcript of the conversation.

"The Hungarian prime Minister thanked Putin and said goodbye in Russian," the publication says.

At the same time, the agency did not say which word Orban used in a conversation with the Russian leader.

Earlier it was reported that during the same telephone conversation, the Hungarian Prime Minister told Putin a popular Hungarian fairy tale about a lion and a mouse.

On March 3, the Russian leader had another telephone conversation with Orban. The parties discussed the conflict over Iran and its possible consequences on the global energy market.