Viktor Orbán adds Zelenskiy to his list of ‘overpowered’ opponents

In his hour of victory, the Hungarian PM seems to remember how the Ukrainian president singled him out

In a defiant victory speech after his electoral landslide, Viktor Orban reeled off those he perceived as opponents he had overpowered". It was a familiar list: the left at home" - his catch-all phrase for political opponents across the spectrum - then the international left, the bureaucrats in Brussels", the empire" of the Hungarian-born billionaire philanthropist George Soros, the international media - and finally, Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

While Zelenskiy is admired across the democratic world for his courageous wartime leadership, in Orban's Hungary he is just another opponent.

Additional reporting by Flora Garamvolgyi