A demonstration of support for the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has gathered today in Budapest a few 150 people, while a counter-protest called by the Ukrainian community has been attended by more than 1,000.
The organizers of the rally in support of Putin, including anti-vaccine activists, blamed the responsibility for the Russian aggression on Ukraine on the United States and NATO, whom they described as “the greatest danger to world peace.”
Against the protest called by the Ukrainians gathered about 1,000 people.
During this march, the Methodist pastor Gábor Iványi, very critical of the Hungarian ultra-nationalist government, apologized to the Ukrainians “because not all Hungarians have supported them.”
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The government of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has condemned the Russian invasion much more lukewarmly than most leaders of the European Union or NATO countries, to which Hungary belongs, and has steadfastly refused to support it militarily. to Ukraine or to sanction the purchase of Russian hydrocarbons.
Orbán and his related media, the vast majority in the country, have presented Putin as an ally in the defense of traditional values against the principles “alien” to Hungarian culture that they claim defends Brussels.
Shortly before the elections on the 3rd, in which Orbán won his fourth consecutive absolute majority, 72% of Hungarians expressed their agreement with the government’s policy of neutrality in the face of the war in Ukraine. EFE
