PHOTOS: Ukraine gets power generators from Hungary – UPDATED

The Hungarian Baptist Aid has sent 60 power generators and eight power inverters to Ukraine in collaboration with the Hungary Helps humanitarian programme, the organisation said on Tuesday.

The Baptist Aid told MTI it will send 15 more high-performance generators to the neighbouring country over the coming weeks. It cited Tristan Azbej, the state secretary of the Prime Minister’s Office responsible for helping persecuted Christians, as saying that the crisis caused by the destruction of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure was getting worse.

“This is why the aid that we’re sending is so important,” Azbej said. He said ten of the 60 generators were being sent to the western Ukrainian region of Transcarpathia, while 50 will be going to the suburb of Kyiv that has been heavily affected by the war. Meanwhile, the Baptist Aid said it has welcomed more than 30,000 refugees over the last ten months in Tiszabecs, in eastern Hungary. The organisation said it is providing accommodation, food and hygienic care to hundreds of refugees in several locations. It also helps refugees find jobs, offers dormitory placement for secondary school students arriving alone and organises camps for children.

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Catholic Caritas hands out Christmas packages to Ukrainian refugees

Dignitaries handed out Christmas packages on behalf of the Hungarian Catholic Charity to Ukrainian refugee children and their families in a church in central Hungary, on Tuesday. Greeting the families, Archbishop Péter Erdő, the leader of the Hungarian Catholic Church, said “the presents we are handing over to you today is in fact given to you by God, we are only filling the role of postman, but with those presents go our hearts as well”.