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BUDAPEST (AP) \u2014 Russia’s ambassador to Hungary was summoned Thursday over a massive drone attack in Ukraine, in a stark example of the about-face in relations with Moscow ushered in by the election of Prime Minister P\u00e9ter Magyar<\/a> after years of cozy ties under his predecessor, Viktor Orb\u00e1n.<\/p>\n

An Associated Press reporter saw Ambassador Evgeny Stanislavov leave the Hungarian Foreign Ministry less than 30 minutes after he arrived to speak with Foreign Minister Anita Orb\u00e1n about strikes that hit the Ukrainian region of Transcarpathia on Wednesday. The region is home to a sizable Hungarian minority.<\/p>\n

\u201cI told the Russian ambassador that it was completely unacceptable for Hungary that they were now attacking Transcarpathia, home of the Hungarian minority,” Anita Orb\u00e1n said on social media. \u201cI stressed that Russia should do everything for an immediate ceasefire and a peaceful and lasting end to the war as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Russia fired at least 800 drones in a massive daytime barrage Wednesday<\/a> targeting about 20 regions of Ukraine. At least six people were killed and dozens were wounded, including children. Lasting hours, it was one of the longest-lasting attacks by Moscow in the war<\/a> now in its fifth year.<\/p>\n

The attacks continued Thursday<\/a>, killing seven in Kyiv alone including a 12-year-old girl, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.<\/p>\n

After the meeting, the Russian embassy issued a statement saying the Russian attack on Wednesday only targeted installations and infrastructure used by Ukraine\u2019s army and not civilian sites.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said called the summons in Budapest an \u201cimportant message\u201d and thanked Magyar for his comments.<\/p>\n

\u201cMoscow has once again shown itself to be a common threat not only to Ukraine, but also to neighbouring countries and Europe as a whole,\u201d Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n

The summons marks a stunning change after years of close relations between Hungary \u2014 both a member of the European Union and NATO \u2014 and Moscow, even following the Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

When the ambassador left the Foreign Ministry building on the banks of the Danube, an activist yelled at him in Hungarian, \u201cComrade, it\u2019s over!\u201d<\/p>\n

After defeating Orb\u00e1n in a historic vote in April, Magyar has vowed to undo much of the legacy built during Orb\u00e1n\u2019s 16 years in power, with a particular focus on alleged corruption.<\/p>\n

Magyar announced Thursday that he was ending two crisis governing structures in Hungary set up in response to the war in Ukraine and the COVID pandemic.<\/p>\n

Orb\u00e1n had declared a \u201c state of danger<\/a> \u201d in 2022 in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and his Fidesz party granted him extraordinary executive power<\/a> during the COVID pandemic in 2020. Both enhanced his powers and led to widespread allegations of democratic backsliding.<\/p>\n

“We are returning to normality,” Magyar said in a social media post. \u201cAs of today, after four years, the wartime state of emergency in Hungary is ending, and with it we are also putting an end to the decree-based emergency rule introduced by the Orb\u00e1n government six years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

McNeil contributed from Brussels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUDAPEST (AP) \u2014 Russia’s ambassador to Hungary was summoned Thursday over a massive drone attack in Ukraine, in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16416],"tags":[26007,41045,422,40218,912,934,40392,329,18102,330,350,347],"class_list":{"0":"post-71256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-peter-magyar","8":"tag-drone-attack","9":"tag-hungarian-foreign-ministry","10":"tag-hungary","11":"tag-minister-anita-orban","12":"tag-moscow","13":"tag-peter-magyar","14":"tag-regions-of-ukraine","15":"tag-russia","16":"tag-transcarpathia","17":"tag-ukraine","18":"tag-viktor-orban","19":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116574022987302249","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}