Orbán convenes defence council amid escalating Ukraine war and nuclear threats

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán convened a meeting of the Defence Council in view of the latest developments of the war in Ukraine, and the increased threat of escalation, the PM’s press chief said.

Orbán, the heads and state secretaries of the relevant ministries, the PM’s national security advisor and the commander of the Hungarian Armed Forces will review the situation after the US decision to allow in-depth attacks on Russian soil with weapons delivered by the US, Bertalan Havasi said.

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They will also assess Moscow’s decision to expand the list of threats to which Russia will potentially respond with nuclear weapons, he said.

Fidesz marks 1,000th day of the war in Ukraine

“We Transcarpathian Hungarians are hoping for a better Hungarian and Transcarpathian future, no matter how dark the times are,” Fidesz MEP Viktória Ferenc said in Brussels on Tuesday, marking the 1,000th day of the Russia-Ukraine war.

Addressing the 9th Transcarpathia Day at the Liszt Institute, Ferenc said the war had shaken the whole of Europe and inspired many forms of solidarity. Hungary is staging the largest humanitarian action of its history to provide aid, she said.

Ferenc said Hungarians living in Transcarpathia were suffering from the terrors of the war even as they were also being stripped of their acquired rights as an ethnic minority. “However, the war and the restriction of their rights … are making the community more resilient and stronger,” she said.

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