Hungary has blocked a proposed EU security assurances and military assistance proposal for Ukraine ahead of a key summit due on March 6, Vedomosti reports. Following the notorious press conference that descended into a shouting match between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and US President Donald Trump on February 28,

"We are all working together in Europe in order to find a basis for cooperation with America for a true peace and guaranteed security," Zelensky said after the summit. Meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron told Le Figaro newspaper that Paris and London wanted to propose a one-month truce between Russia and Ukraine "in the air,