Orban falls, and from Moscow a message arrives immediately: this will not save the EU, but will accelerate its inevitable collapse. Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund and special representative of Putin, did not wait even 24 hours.

This will only accelerate the EU's collapse. Check in four months if I am right, Dmitriev wrote on network X. Message short, direct and provocative enough to unsettle those in Brussels who think Magyar's victory is the end of the problem.

The Russian reaction came in response to a comment by British activist Tommy Robinson that Hungary had fallen and that the death of Europe continues. Moscow, therefore, is not mourning Orban - it is already calculating how his fall will create new cracks in the Union.

The numbers are speaking

Peter Magyar declared victory with 138 of 199 mandates - a constitutional majority without a coalition partner for the opposition. Orban acknowledged defeat, calling the results painful for his FIDESZ party, which received only 55 seats. After 16 years in power, an era is over.

But does Moscow truly lose with Orban's fall? Or is it simply changing tactics - from a friend in Budapest who protects, to the narrative that the entire EU is collapsing? On the Balkans, we know this recipe all too well.