Hungarian Foreign Minister Anita Orban said she protested Russia’s attack on Ukraine’s Zakarpattia Oblast during a conversation with Russian Ambassador Evgeny Stanislavov on May 14.<\/p>\n
“I told the Russian ambassador that it is completely unacceptable to Hungary that Zakarpattia, inhabited by Hungarians, is also being attacked,” Orban said<\/a> in a Facebook video.<\/p>\n “I emphasized that Russia<\/a> must do everything in its power to secure an immediate ceasefire<\/a> and bring about a peaceful and lasting end to the war as soon as possible,” she added.<\/p>\n The comments came after Hungary summoned<\/a> the Russian ambassador following Moscow’s latest mass attack against Ukraine, which included what Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar described as an unprecedented number of drones targeting Zakarpattia Oblast<\/a>.<\/p>\n Russia launched<\/a> more than 800 drones during the May 13 attack, killing at least 14 people and injuring dozens more all around Ukraine, including children.<\/p>\n Ukraine’s western Zakarpattia Oblast, home to a sizable Hungarian minority, was among the regions targeted. The city of Uzhhorod, located near Ukraine’s<\/a> border with the EU, was struck with attack drones for the first time since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion.<\/p>\n Anita Orban, who is not related to former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban<\/a>, has taken a markedly different approach from her predecessor Peter Szijjarto, who was closely associated with Budapest’s earlier pro-Russian policy.<\/p>\n Since defeating Viktor Orban in a landmark election, Magyar<\/a> has moved to improve relations between Hungary and Ukraine after years of tensions between Kyiv and Budapest.<\/p>\n