Hungary will provide assistance wherever its Ukrainian partners ask for it, Magyar Levente said.Continue reading
The deputy foreign minister visited Ukraine to hand over buses donated by the city of Veszprém in Western Hungary.
“It is a basic human duty to help all those in need according to our strength, size, and abilities,” said Levente Magyar, Deputy Minister and Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, on Sunday in Uzhhorod (Ungvár, Transcarpathia, Ukraine), where he handed over the first batch of 14 city buses offered by the city of Veszprém as humanitarian aid. Five of the six vehicles will be sent to cities in Ukraine where the war has partially destroyed the bus fleet, said Levente Magyar, while one will be used in Transcarpathia.
Volodimir Chubirko, Chairman of the Transcarpathian Regional Council, Viktor Mikita, Governor of Transcarpathia, State Secretary Levente Magyar and Consul General József Bacskai at the military cemetery in Uzhhorod.
The Ukrainian municipalities have donated a large part of their bus fleet to the army. In many cases, they are unable to provide basic services, such as transporting children to school.
Magyar underlined that “despite all the false suggestions, Hungary is very actively involved in helping Ukraine,” with very few countries providing humanitarian assistance on such a scale. The state secretary said that “in addition to the people who are taken in, housed, and educated in Hungary,” the country is doing its utmost to alleviate the suffering caused by the war in Ukraine.
Photos via MTI/Nemes János