Ukrainian MFA Responds to Szijjártó: “The Names of Those on the Side of Evil Will Be in Textbooks”

The Hungarian minister said the war in Ukraine led to a “catastrophic weakening of Europe and the European Union.” He noted they had to tell the truth that EU leaders failed to protect people in Europe from paying for the war “they are not responsible for.”

“No one should forget: Ukrainians pay with their lives so that people in the rest of Europe do not see the horrors of war. Russian aggression is a hybrid. It is not only about the military. The Russians attack Ukrainian cities and villages with cruise missiles, tanks, and EU countries with sky-high gas prices and propaganda. Let me remind you that Russia started blackmailing European consumers with energy resources supplies and a high price tag as early as November 2021 – three months before the full-scale invasion in Ukraine,” Oleg Nikolenko, the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, wrote on Facebook.

He emphasized there is no “this is not our war,” and there is no “their war.”

“Russia’s attack on Ukraine is an attack on the entire democratic world, democratic values, the right to be yourself and to determine your own future. It is futile even to hope that you can sit aside, pretending that what is tearing your neighbour to pieces does not concern you. It cannot be so. Over 150,000 Ukrainians of Hungarian origin live in Ukraine. Budapest is never tired of emphasizing how much it cares about them,” Nikolenko stressed.

According to the spokesman, history will put everything in the right places. “The names of those on the side of good and those on the side of evil will be written in textbooks,” said the representative of the Ukrainian ministry.

Szijjártó stated on Monday again that Budapest would not support any additional energy sanctions against Russia and criticized the EU’s energy policy.

The vast majority of Hungarians do not support EU sanctions against Russia.