PHOTOS: Budapest’s Chain Bridge lights up in solidarity with Ukraine

Budapest’s landmark Chain Bridge is illuminated with the colours of the Ukrainian flag with the message “we must not lose our moral compass and we must not lose our friends”, Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony said.

Karácsony noted on Facebook that “the most destructive war in Europe since the second world war” has been underway for a thousand days.

He said there was no moral or political excuse for Putin-led Russia’s total war against Ukraine. “Standing on Ukraine’s side cannot be a matter of deliberation or calculation, only a matter of conviction,” he added.

Since the first days of the war, Budapest has been “trying to maintain the closest possible cooperation” with international and Hungarian partners that organise humanitarian aid, including the capitals of the Visegrád region, local councils from Transcarpathia and UNICEF, he said.

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