Szijjarto recalled Zelensky's number with "playing the piano without hands"

On March 24, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Economic Relations Peter Szijjarto posted a short video in which he again recalled the number "Playing the piano without hands" to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.

In a video posted on Instagram (owned by Meta, recognized as extremist in Russia), Szijjarto, along with Hungarian Deputy Interior Minister Benze Retvari and Hungarian pianist Gergei Bogani, tries to play a six-handed synthesizer, and jokingly discusses how much time it takes to learn to play the piano.

"Like Zelensky: one, two, three!" said Szijjarto, waving his hand. He counted to three in Russian.

After that, the video is interrupted by footage of Zelensky's performance with the number "Playing the piano without hands" in 2016 on Ukrainian TV. This is followed again by footage of Szijjarto, Retvari and Bogani playing, applause and bowing.

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