Gergely Gulyás, Head of the Prime Minister’s Office, said Hungary has been “doing everything possible” to help the people of Transcarpathia.
Speaking in Sátoraljaújhely, in eastern Hungary, on Wednesday, Gulyás said that “each Hungarian bears responsibility for each and every Hungarian regardless of where they live in the world”. Gulyás told students and their teachers from Transcapathia staying in the town that Hungary condemned Russian aggression and continued to do so, adding that Hungary is providing humanitarian aid to Transcarpathia, in western Ukraine, and elsewhere in the country. Also, the country is providing financial support for the running of the Ukrainian state, as well as taking in refugees or allowing them to pass through Hungarian territory, he noted. Gulyás praised Ukraine’s “heroic struggle” to defend its territory, adding that it was in Hungary’s interest that Hungarians living in Transcarpathia should suffer as little as possible, so Hungary has refused to deliver weapons as doing so would endanger the people of Transcarpathia by making them a target.