Budapest Mayor Karácsony: war in Ukraine between good and evil
Ukraine has done more for us than we’ve done for Ukraine, Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony said in front of the Russian embassy in Budapest on Sunday, at the Momentum Movement’s commemoration of the 3rd anniversary of the war.
Russians aggressors, Ukrainians heroic
Karácsony said “the war is not only between the Russian aggressor and the heroic Ukrainian people but between good and evil, democracy and tyranny, courage and apathy.”
“Not only did the war not end in three years, events of the past week have brought the recognition that we might be living through Act 1,” he added. “I hope there’s a special place in hell for those purposely mixing up the aggressor and the victim … and mocking and making the target of hatred a nation’s self-defence,” he said. Karácsony said Ukraine was protecting Europe, too, as well as the ideals that held Europe together: freedom, dignity and democracy.
Solidarity and humanity, standing by Ukraine
The mayor declared that Hungary was not synonymous with its government. “Today people calling themselves patriots are the ones bringing out the worst in us. They have been systematically dividing and weakening Europe, and now they’re rejoicing over a divided, weak Europe.”
“According to the fundamental moral compass, solidarity and humanity, standing by Ukraine is not a matter of evaluation or calculation … [it] is faith and conviction, now and always. This is my faith and convictions, and Budapest’s faith and conviction,” he said.
Hungary supports US resolution on Ukraine, Hungarian government says
Péter Szijjártó, the foreign minister, has said that thanks to US-Russian negotiations, “we are at the closest point in the past three years to ending the war in Ukraine”. On Monday the UN General Assembly will discuss two peace resolutions, Szijjártó said on Facebook today. “One has been submitted by the Americans, the other by EU member states,” he said, adding that Hungary backed US resolution “and is even co-authoring it”.
He added that “pro-war, liberal European leaders have fuelled” the war, while President Donald Trump was “taking giant steps towards ending it”.
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