Istvan Ijdjarto, the Hungarian ambassador in Kiev, was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine in connection with the statements of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who compared Ukraine to Afghanistan and called it a “no man’s land”, Ukrainian diplomacy spokesman Oleh Nikolenko said on Facebook.
“Another discrediting statement by Viktor Orban against Ukraine. Such statements are categorically unacceptable. Budapest continues the course of deliberate destruction of Hungarian-Ukrainian relations, significantly undermining the possibility of further dialogue between the two neighboring countries,” Nikolenko wrote.
He added that the ambassador Hungarian He was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a “frank talk”. “We reserve the right to take other actions as part of the response,” he stressed.
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The Ukrainska Pravda portal reported that Orban met with 15 journalists on Friday, before whom he admitted that he did not believe in Ukraine’s victory. He was also to say that the country is gradually turning into a ruin “which cannot be governed” and therefore “Ukraine, like Afghanistanis no man’s land.”
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