No politician is as criticized as he is: Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban (61) is using his country's EU Council presidency to pursue an unconventional "peace plan." First, Orban arrived in Kyiv to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (46), and on Friday he traveled to the heart of the Russian war of aggression: the Kremlin, to meet with Russia's dictator Vladimir Putin (71).

Does Hungary's Prime Minister really believe he can end the war? And what did Putin tell him about the war within the Kremlin walls? In an extensive interview with BILD, Orban explains how the Russian dictator thinks—and why he doesn't care about the criticism at all.