Zelenskyy instructs MFA to clarify all facts regarding Hungary's decision to ban entry for serviceman
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to clarify all the facts regarding Hungary's decision to ban entry for one of the military commanders and to react accordingly.
"If Hungary has indeed closed entry into Hungary and the entire Schengen zone to one of Ukraine’s military commanders, who is an ethnic Hungarian and a citizen of Ukraine, this can only cause outrage. I have instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine to clarify all the facts and respond accordingly," Zelenskyy wrote on the Telegram channel on Thursday.
The President noted that now, when Ukrainians are eliminating the consequences of one of the largest Russian terrorist attacks, "we see yet another attempt by Hungarian officials to portray black as white and to shift the blame for the ongoing war onto Ukraine."
"In Ukraine, we responded positively to all proposals from the world regarding a ceasefire and real diplomacy, and the only one who rebuffed them was Russia. Unfortunately, there has still been no fair reaction from Hungary to such behavior by Russia. Nor has there even been sympathy expressed over the deaths of our people – just last night alone, in Kyiv, Russian drones and missiles took the lives of 17 people, including 4 children," Zelenskyy noted.
He added that new accusations against Ukraine are being heard from Hungary every day.
"Hungarian officials have gone so far as to attempt to discriminate against members of the Hungarian community in Ukraine for their participation in the defense of our state and our people," Zelenskyy stressed.
As previously reported, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha responded to the recent comments made by his Hungarian counterpart, Péter Szijjártó, concerning the prohibition of the commander of the Ukrainian military unit responsible for the "final strike" on the Druzhba oil pipeline from entering the country.
"How shameless to post this after a brutal attack by terrorist state Russia. Peter, if the Russian pipeline is more important to you than the Ukrainian children killed by Russia this morning, this is moral decay. Hungary is on the wrong side of history. We’ll take mirror action," he wrote on X.
