Preparations are underway for the visit of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to Kyiv, which will take place "after all prerequisites are met".

"We have received an invitation, and now we need to complete the technical part of the preparatory work. After fulfilling all the prerequisites, the visit can take place, but now we are at the technical preparation stage," Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary, said in an interview with Hungarian TV channel N1.

Asked about whether there is political will to carry out the visit, the Hungarian diplomat answered that "we received the invitation and appreciate it".

"Recently, the Prime Minister spoke with President Zelenskyy in Brussels. We are always ready for a dialogue, and we hope that the dialogue will make sense. We are preparing everything now; we will see," he said.

Viktor Orbán remains one of the few EU state leaders who have not visited Kyiv since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

In February, Orbán's press secretary Bertalan Havasi confirmed that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy invited Orbán to visit Ukraine during a meeting within the framework of the European Union summit in Brussels.

Later, Szijjártó announced that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary is working on preparations for Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's visit to Kyiv.