{"id":72029,"date":"2026-05-15T06:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T06:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/72029\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T06:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T06:30:10","slug":"hungary-confronts-russia-over-ukraine-strikes-signaling-break-from-orbans-kremlin-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/72029\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungary Confronts Russia Over Ukraine Strikes, Signaling Break From Orb\u00e1n\u2019s Kremlin Line"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hungary<\/a> has summoned Russia<\/a>\u2019s ambassador in a rare and pointed protest over recent attacks on Ukraine, signaling a significant shift away from the pro-Kremlin stance.<\/p>\n

According to a Bloomberg<\/a> report, Hungarian Foreign Minister Anita Orb\u00e1n met Russian Ambassador Evgeny Stanislavov in Budapest on Thursday, following condemnation from Prime Minister Peter Magyar<\/a> over what he described as one of the most intense waves of drone strikes targeting western Ukraine \u2013 a region home to an ethnic Hungarian minority.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Hungarian government strongly condemns the Russian attack on Transcarpathia,\u201d Magyar told<\/a> journalists.<\/p>\n

Before Orb\u00e1n met with the Russian ambassador, he said his minister would demand an answer from Stanislavov on \u201cwhen Russia and Vladimir Putin plan to finally end this bloody war<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky later wrote on X: \u201cThank you for your compassion and strong position!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI repeated that the Hungarian government deeply condemns the Russian attack and we expect an immediate halt to attacks against civilians,\u201d Orb\u00e1n said after the meeting.<\/p>\n

She added that strikes on Ukraine\u2019s Zakarpattia region were \u201ccompletely unacceptable\u201d for Hungary.<\/p>\n

The move marks a clear departure from Hungary\u2019s previous foreign policy under Viktor Orb\u00e1n, whose government maintained close ties with Moscow throughout Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

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24 Killed, Including 3 Children, as Rescuers Race Against Time in Kyiv Rubble After Russian Strike<\/a><\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s massive overnight missile and drone attack on Kyiv killed at least 24 people, including three children, and wounded 47 others. Rescuers continued searching rubble in the Darnytskyi district after a residential building was destroyed from the first to ninth floors, while president Zelensky said the strike showed Russia was not acting like a country seeking peace.<\/p>\n

Former Foreign Minister P\u00e9ter Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 was a key architect of that approach, frequently visiting Russia and advocating within the European Union to soften sanctions and block military aid to Kyiv, the report adds.<\/p>\n

Magyar has pledged to reorient Hungary toward the European Union and reduce reliance on Russia. His government held its first cabinet meeting on Wednesday, setting the tone for a broader geopolitical pivot.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Budapest faces a delicate balancing act. Hungary remains heavily dependent on Russian energy supplies, and Magyar has indicated he intends to maintain imports of Russian gas and oil despite a looming EU ban, as per the Bloomberg.<\/p>\n

At least 24 people, including three children, were killed<\/a> in a Russian overnight strike on Kyiv on Thursday, as emergency crews continued to clear rubble and search for survivors beneath a destroyed residential building in the capital\u2019s Darnytskyi district.<\/p>\n

Zelensky said Russia had carried out a \u201cvirtually non-stop aerial attack\u201d<\/a> over two days, deploying more than 1,500 drones and 56 missiles of various types.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hungary has summoned Russia\u2019s ambassador in a rare and pointed protest over recent attacks on Ukraine, signaling a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[350],"class_list":{"0":"post-72029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-viktor-orban","8":"tag-viktor-orban"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116577188296589421","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72029","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=72029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}