Hungarian President visited President Zelensky in Kyiv

Hungarian President Katalin Novák visited a kindergarten and school being rebuilt with Hungarian support in the village of Zahaltsy, near Kyiv, laid a wreath at a memorial site for the victims of the Russia-Ukraine war and held talks with Ukraine’s commissioner for human rights on Wednesday.

On the second day of her visit to Ukraine, Novák visited Kyiv after spending her first day in Transcarpathia. Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, told the president about the repatriation and rehabilitation of Ukrainian children taken to Russia. Novák noted that Hungary was undertaking the largest humanitarian operation in its history, as part of which it devoted special attention to organising summer camps for Ukrainian children.

Lubinets thanked Novák for the help Hungary had provided to Ukraine since the start of the war. “Hard times will always reveal true friends,” he said, adding that Hungary had been among the first countries to take in tens and later hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees, providing them the care they needed, for which all Hungarians deserved gratitude. At the talks, Novák touched on the issue of the educational and linguistic rights of the Transcarpathian Hungarian minority. Lubinets told MTI’s correspondent that there was no problem with talks with the Hungarian side, adding that “everyone has to take care of the rights of their citizens”.