{"id":18972,"date":"2026-05-14T16:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/18972\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T16:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:55:09","slug":"hungarys-new-foreign-minister-criticizes-russia-on-drone-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/18972\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungary&#8217;s new foreign minister criticizes Russia on drone attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hungary\u2019s new foreign minister, Anita Orb\u00e1n, on Thursday criticized Russia over recent drone attacks on the western Ukrainian region of Transcarpathia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The politician from the centre-right Tisza Party announced on her Facebook page that she had summoned the Russian ambassador in Budapest and told him that the Hungarian government condemns these attacks in the strongest possible terms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWe expect [Russia] to cease its aggression against civilians immediately,\u201d Orb\u00e1n added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The minister, who is not related to the ousted prime minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n, took office on Tuesday. Following the Tisza Party\u2019s overwhelming victory in the parliamentary election on April 12, the National Assembly elected its leader, P\u00e9ter Magyar, as prime minister last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hungary borders the Ukrainian region of Transcarpathia to the east. According to Hungarian sources, up to 100,000 ethnic Hungarians live there. The right-wing populist Viktor Orb\u00e1n had hardly ever criticized Russia, even after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He and his foreign minister, P\u00e9ter Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3, maintained a sometimes friendly relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hungary\u2019s new foreign minister, Anita Orb\u00e1n, on Thursday criticized Russia over recent drone attacks on the western Ukrainian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[753,3350,248,4353,9833,250,3537,5,9832,4803],"class_list":{"0":"post-18972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-drone-attacks","9":"tag-foreign-minister","10":"tag-hungary","11":"tag-orban","12":"tag-parliamentary-election","13":"tag-peter-magyar","14":"tag-prime-minister","15":"tag-russia","16":"tag-tisza","17":"tag-transcarpathia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}