US President Donald Trump said he would consider giving Hungary a carve-out from sanctions on Russian oil, as Prime Minister Viktor Orban sought to cozy up to his right-wing ally at the White House on Friday.

Nationalist Orban's visit was his first since Trump's return to power, and comes after his country offered to host a Ukraine summit between the US leader and Russian President Vladimir Putin, which has now been called off.

"We are looking at it because it is very difficult for him to get the oil and gas from other areas. As you know they don't have the advantage of having sea," Trump told reporters.

The United States hit Russia's two biggest oil companies with sanctions last month as Trump's frustration with Putin's refusal to end the nearly four-year-old invasion of Ukraine mounte

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