By Steve Holland and Anita Komuves

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump sits down for talks with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Friday, and the two leaders are expected to discuss Hungary’s reliance on Russian oil at a time when Trump has been working to wean nations off of it.

Orban, a long-time Trump ally, will be meeting the U.S. president for the first time bilaterally since Trump returned to the White House in January.

The two leaders are like-minded in their anti-immigration stances, but a potentially difficult topic involves Hungary’s reliance on Russian oil. Trump has been insisting that European nations stop buying it as a way to dry up Moscow’s funding for its invasion of Ukraine.

Hungary has maintained its reliance on Russian energy since the start of

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