Hungary has summoned Russia’s ambassador in a rare and pointed protest over recent attacks on Ukraine, signaling a significant shift away from the pro-Kremlin stance.
According to a Bloomberg report, Hungarian Foreign Minister Anita Orbán met Russian Ambassador Evgeny Stanislavov in Budapest on Thursday, following condemnation from Prime Minister Peter Magyar over what he described as one of the most intense waves of drone strikes targeting western Ukraine – a region home to an ethnic Hungarian minority.
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“The Hungarian government strongly condemns the Russian attack on Transcarpathia,” Magyar told journalists.
Before Orbán met with the Russian ambassador, Magyar said his top diplomat would demand an answer from Stanislavov on “when Russia and Vladimir Putin plan to finally end this bloody war.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky later thanked Budapest on X.
“Thank you for your compassion and strong position!” he wrote.
The Hungarian foreign minister said she told Moscow that Budapest expects an “immediate halt to attacks against civilians.”
“I repeated that the Hungarian government deeply condemns the Russian attack and we expect an immediate halt to attacks against civilians,” Orbán said after the meeting.
She added that strikes on Ukraine’s Zakarpattia region were “completely unacceptable” for Hungary.
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