First step towards diplomatic warming between Kiyv and Budapest: foreign ministers discuss ways to resolve tensions.
First visit to Ukraine by the Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs since the start of the war.
The meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart took place in Transcarpathia, a region which was Hungarian until the First World War.
Budapest criticizes Ukraine for measures adopted in 2017 which highlighted the Ukrainian language at the expense of the languages spoken by the country’s minorities.
Peter Szijjarto, Hungarian Foreign Minister: “It is perhaps not an exaggeration and my colleagues do not consider it disrespectful that I use the word ‘waiting’ so that members of the Hungarian national community regain their rights which already existed in 2015.
The meeting took place ahead of Thursday’s extraordinary European summit, the aim of which is to release a tranche of 50 billion in aid to Ukraine to support the war effort..
To date, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is opposed to it and negotiations are underway.
On the ground, the Ukrainian army says it recorded 35 drones fired by the Russians during the night from Monday to Tuesday.
The anti-aircraft defense claims to have shot down around fifteen.
Intense fighting is taking place in the north of the country, particularly in the Kharkiv region, for control of the town of Tabaïvka.
