On 7 April 2026, during a conversation with Putin, Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán compared himself to a «mouse» helping a «lion», Bloomberg wrote. This is a children's tale popular in Hungary based on Aesop's fable, in which a mouse frees a lion from a net after the lion spared its life. The transcript notes that this remark made Putin laugh.
On 12 April 2026, Viktor Orbán lost the election and conceded defeat.
