USA: Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto predicted in Budapest on Friday that the situation for talks to end the conflict in Ukraine will only get worse. He thinks that now is the best time for negotiations between the two parties.

Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, said that while Kiev and its backers, including the US and NATO, are still refusing to engage in such talks, Moscow is ready to try to find a diplomatic solution to the crisis.

Following his meeting with the Turkish foreign minister, Hakan Fidan, Szijjarto stated to reporters on Friday that there will never be better circumstances for peace talks than the ones that exist right now. The Hungarian minister continued, "Tomorrow's conditions will be worse than today's." Yesterday's conditions were better than today's.

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According to Szijjarto, Budapest continues to hold the view that "there is no [military] solution" to the conflict. One of the most vocal proponents of a negotiated resolution to the ongoing conflict has emerged as Hungary.

Szijjarto and Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary have criticised the EU for arming Kiev and called for a ceasefire and peace agreement in Ukraine on numerous occasions. Budapest has also maintained vehemently that sanctions against Russia harm Europe more so than Moscow. According to Orban's comments to German tabloid Bild in June, a Ukrainian victory on the battlefield is "impossible."

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The prime minister also claimed this week that Kiev had essentially "run out of strength" and that Western financial support was the only thing keeping Ukraine "alive."

Moscow has repeatedly expressed its readiness for negotiations with Ukraine. It has also attributed the lack of diplomatic progress to Kiev, citing a law signed by President Vladimir Zelensky last year that forbids negotiations as long as Putin is in charge of Russia.

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The Ukrainian president reaffirmed his position last month, saying that talks with Moscow could only begin after Russian forces left all of the territory inside of its 1991 borders, including Crimea. Such demands have been rebuffed by Russia as unrealistic.

Putin claimed that NATO's threats to Russia's security are the root of the ongoing conflict while speaking at the Russia-Africa summit in St. Petersburg on Friday. The United States and its allies "reject negotiations on the issues of assuring equal security," he continued.