Soltész: Hungary helps refugees, but does not send guns and soldiers
Hungary has sent 1,300 tons of aid to Ukraine since the outbreak of the war and hundreds of thousands of refugees in Hungary, but still does not send weapons and soldiers, stressed Secretary of State Miklós Soltész, chairman of the National Humanitarian Coordination Council, on Tuesday after visiting Ljubov Nepop, Ukraine’s ambassador to Budapest. at a humanitarian transit point in the hall.
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The Secretary of State for Ecclesiastical and Ethnic Relations of the Prime Minister’s Office told the public media that Hungary could help much more if it remained an “island of peace” with Transcarpathia.
Hungary also disagrees with the embargo on Russian oil and gas imports, because it would hit the Hungarian and European economies so hard that we would “ruin and help,” he said.
The Ukrainian ambassador, who visited the transit point for the first time, thanked the Hungarian government and the Hungarians for their help and asked them to continue to support those coming from Ukraine.
He only indicated, respects and understands the Hungarian position on arms transfers, but does not agree with him. “You can’t defend without a weapon”Said Ljubov Nepop.