Russian President Vladimir Putin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban hold a joint press conference in Moscow during a visit by the latter that has triggered rebukes from across the EU. Putin accuses Ukraine's Western backers of using "the country and its people as a battering ram" and calls for the "total withdrawal" of Kyiv's forces from annexed regions. Orban, Moscow's closest EU ally, says "positions are far apart." IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES