“Ruskki’s homeland”, “Putin’s terrorist”, “Putin’s killer” – chanted the anti-war demonstration of the Ukrainian community in Hungary in front of the building of the Russian embassy on Bajza Street on Saturday afternoon. The Unity Ukrainian Association announced a solidarity movement for 4 p.m. “Let us support Ukraine in the fight against Russian aggression in order to preserve peace and sovereignty!” He stood in the description of the event. On our Facebook page we will broadcast the demonstration live.

At least 5-600 people gathered at the scene from four o’clock, with most of the flags holding a Ukrainian or banner in front of them. “Stop Putin’s war in Ukraine!” – stood on one of the boards in English, but we also saw some banners in Hungarian: “Putin is a killer!”, “Don’t buy Russian!” with captions. As can be seen in our broadcast, subsidies are being collected for the Ukrainian army in one box, and the Ukrainian national anthem was sung shortly before five o’clock.

One of the organizers thanked the Hungarians for going out for the demonstration, but also thanked the Hungarian government for their help on the Ukrainian-Hungarian border. He highlighted Orbán’s visit and thanked the Hungarian Prime Minister for supporting the sanction that would exclude Russia from the international interbank settlement system called SWIFT.

“Innocent civilians, including children, will die in the heart of Europe today, 26 February. Russia violates international law “

he said in his speech, then said that the occupation of the Chernobyl power plant affected the whole world. Several then gave short speeches in Ukrainian, and the crowd began to chant from time to time.

Another speaker asked participants to pray for Ukraine and then listed what he thought could be done for the country. He has asked NATO to close Ukrainian airspace and internet users to bring to justice Russia’s war crimes. “Hospitals, kindergartens, schools are being bombed,” he said, adding that it is important for everyone to use only credible resources.

Half past six then the crowd set off on Andrássy Avenue towards Heroes’ Square. According to our on-site correspondent, more than a thousand people had already joined the demonstration by this time. At six o’clock, the organizer of the demonstration announced in the Heroes’ Square that the event was over.

The Saturday developments of the war in Ukraine are reported minute by minute in this article.

On Thursday, Péter Márki-Zay and in the Unity held a demonstration in front of the building of the Russian embassy in Hungary, thousands of people chanted together, “Ruszkik home!”.