During a meeting with Heiser, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Alexander Mishchenko emphasized that it is obvious to Kyiv that “political forces ruling in Hungary, under any conditions, are trying to draw Ukraine into a domestic political struggle.”
Mishchenko noted that Ukraine never allowed itself to intervene in the internal affairs of any country, in particular Hungary, so such attempts by the Hungarian government previously caused concern in Kyiv.
“Now all these awkward techniques to create an image of an enemy from Ukraine, which fights with a real enemy of all Europe and the civilized world, look just miserable and insulting, primarily for the Hungarian people, which, unlike navigated politicians, is really a European nation, which through the volunteer movement helps everything that the Ukrainian people, to defeat the Russian enemy and not allow the Russian enemy to return the Russian people The invaders are back to the streets of Budapest, ”the Foreign Ministry notes.
Context
On June 10, the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, in an interview with the Hungarian portal Válasz Online, said that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is using the theme of the Russian-aggressor country against Ukraine and the President of Ukraine itself in its interests before the parliamentary elections.
To this, the Hungarian government stated that Zelensky supposedly was openly campaigning for the Hungarian opposition party “Tisa” and ignores the fact that the membership of Ukraine in the EU is not among the national interests of Budapest.
The speaker of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Georgy Tikhiy replied that the “communication line of the Hungarian authorities demonizing Ukraine and Zelensky left the rails.”
On June 18, Bloomberg wrote that Orban could lose power due to the rapid growth of the support of the opposition party “Tisa”.
On July 2, the Quietly published a photo of a new advertising campaign in Hungary, connecting Zelensky with the leader of the opposition of Hungary Peter Madyar, and commented on it.
“Instead of explaining to the Hungarian people how they ruined the economy, the Hungarian government is busy drawing cartoons at the Ukrainian president. It looks stupid, boring and unconvincing,” the speaker of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
