Moscow Candidates Are Losers.

• Andriy Ilyenko
• 13.04.2026, 15:22

It's a good trend.

I don't know if the next Hungarian government will be friendly to us. Or at least just good-neighborly.

But there is still cautious optimism. For example, the future Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar came to Ukraine during the full-scale invasion and made symbolic steps of solidarity with Ukraine. How it will go on - time will tell.

In any case, Orban's crushing defeat is a very good thing. At least for these obvious reasons:

1. Orban built his entire campaign on open hatred of Ukraine. And total loss. This is good at least as a textbook example for the future for all similar Ukrainophobes in other countries - anti-Ukrainian hysteria as a political technology does not work. Rather the opposite.

2. It was not only Orban who lost. Putin lost, along with all his money, bots, political technologists, GRUSHniki, Kirienka and the like.

Not long ago, the Moscow-backed putsch in the elections was defeated by Moldova and Romania. Now Hungary, which for years was the Kremlin's main ally in Europe.

This is a good trend. Moscow's candidates are losers.

3. I hope the Orban story will be a reason for the current U.S. administration to think seriously about whether it is worth it to meddle so blatantly in foreign elections. Though I don't think conclusions will be drawn. There is triumph after triumph.

But at least one thing is clear - such support hurts rather than helps.

We do our own thing. Let's keep working.

Andrey Ilyenko, Facebook