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Are Hungarians living in Ukraine separatists?
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There is a real chance that the proxy war between Ukraine and Russia will turn into one of the world’s military hot spots in the next few days. President Putin’s decision to recognise the statehood of the two separatist republics is a clear threat to Ukraine’s territorial integrity. A possible war between Russia and Ukraine would affect every part of our northeastern neighbour, including Transcarpathia. That is the only region in Ukraine where a considerable Hungarian minority live.
Ethnic minorities have bad experiences
Based on the latest estimates, their number still reaches 120,000 people. Hungarians living in the region neither have positive experiences from the Soviet nor the Ukrainian era.
The leadership of Ukraine spent the last few years after the Maidan revolution (2013) with nation-building.
Trying to separate the Ukrainian nation, language, culture, economy as far as possible from Russia; however, they harmed almost all other ethnic minorities living in the country.
For example, they banned their language use in everyday life or schools, constantly threatened their leaders and inhibited the economic support programs trying to help them.
According to index.hu, the biggest question is whether the Russian “peacekeeping” troops would like to retrieve the whole territories of the Donetsk National Republic and the Luhansk National Republic Russia. If so, a war between the two armies is inevitable. That is because the two former Ukrainian counties leaving Kyiv’s rule in 2014 were much bigger than the areas the separatists control today.
Putin’s declaration
Putin’s Monday announcement was followed by uncertainty among Hungarians living in Transcarpathia, a former territory of the Kingdom of Hungary today belonging to Ukraine. Sándor Seremet, a fellow expert of the Institute of Foreign Affairs and Trade and general secretary of the Transcarpathian Alliance, called attention that the constitutions of the two republics clearly state that they demand all territories of former Donetsk and Luhansk counties. The agreements on friendship and mutual assistance between Russia and the republics
do not mention conquests beyond the current borders.
Svetlana Zhurova, the deputy leader of the Russian State Duma’s international committee, confirmed that standpoint yesterday.
There is no panic among the Hungarians living in Transcarpathia. There has been a conflict since 2014, but that remained on a local level. Even so, Hungarians were brought to the Eastern front back then. However, it is not likely that the conflict will escalate to territories inhabited by Hungarians. However, all other impacts will concern them. Currently, there is no military mobilisation, but that can change provided an invasion begins from the republics.
The only true is the reality, with Janukovich the Hungarians had all their rights to speak Hungarian and live with freedom. Since the Maidan cup, the Hungarians lost all their rights in Ukraine. The current Ukrainian government is the nazi ultra right based on the battalion of Azov, a recognized nazi movement. Only facts.