US reminds pro-Putin Hungary it's a Western ally

The US embassy in Budapest has hit back at weeks of vitriolic anti-American comments from Viktor Orban's Fidesz government over the war in Ukraine.

A one-minute video posted by the embassy this week on Twitter presented five anti-US remarks by government figures or their media allies.

Viewers were asked to guess if the remarks came from Russian President Vladimir Putin or the Hungarian leader's men.

The right answer, each time, was Team Orban.

Comments included: "[The US] is the beneficiary of the war, so it is hardly interested in ending...