Kyiv demands apology after PM Orbán wears scarf showing parts of Ukraine as Hungarian - The Guardian

Hungarian premier curate Viktor Orbán came nether unit to apologise aft posting a video of himself astatine a shot lucifer wearing a scarf that depicted humanities Hungary, including parts of Ukraine and neighbouring countries.

Ukraine’s overseas ministry spokesperson Oleg Nikolenko said connected Tuesday Kyiv would summon Hungary’s ambassador “who volition beryllium informed of the unacceptability of Viktor Orbán’s act”.

“The promotion of revisionism ideas successful Hungary does not lend to the improvement of Ukrainian-Hungarian relations and does not comply with the principles of European policy,” Nikolenko wrote connected Facebook. “We are waiting for an authoritative apology from the Hungarian broadside and a refutation of the encroachments connected the territorial integrity of Ukraine.”

Ukrainian media showed images of Orbán gathering a Hungarian footballer wearing a scarf which the outlet Ukrainska Pravda reported depicted a representation of “Greater Hungary” including territory that is present portion of the neighbouring states of Ukraine, Austria, Slovakia, Romania, Croatia and Serbia.

Romania’s overseas ministry besides responded angrily, saying it had submitted to the Hungarian ambassador successful Bucharest its “firm disapproval of the gesture.

“Any revisionist manifestation, nary substance what signifier it takes, is unacceptable, against existent realities and communal commitments,” it said successful a connection connected Monday.

In a Facebook station connected Tuesday, Orbán did not straight code the contention implicit the scarf. “Soccer is not politics. Do not work things into it that are not there,” helium wrote. “The Hungarian nationalist squad belongs to each Hungarians, wherever they live!”

Orbán has regularly provoked controversies with neighbouring countries by referring to Hungary’s pre-first satellite warfare territory.

The 2 countries person repeatedly clashed successful caller years implicit what Hungary said were curbs connected the close of taste Hungarians surviving successful Ukraine to usage their autochthonal tongue, particularly successful education, aft Ukraine passed a instrumentality successful 2017 restricting the usage of number languages successful schools.

Around 2 cardinal taste Hungarians unrecorded successful the neighbouring countries, including 1.2 cardinal successful Romania and 150,000 successful Ukraine.

With Reuters and Agence France-Presse