“The way the Hungarian government behaved on the eve and on election day was an interference in the internal affairs of Ukraine,” said a Ukrainian minister.

Ukraine has banned the entry of two senior Hungarian officials due to “turmoil” in Transcarpathia during local elections, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmitro Kuleba said on Monday. Interfax-Ukraine news agency.

According to the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, one of the officials was the Secretary of State of the Hungarian Prime Minister’s Office, whom he did not mention by name and did not reveal anything about the other. However, he added that an entry ban was also initiated for other Hungarian citizens who had actively “interfered” in Ukraine’s internal affairs during the elections.

“Soon we will inform our partners in detail about the fact of the Hungarian intervention in the elections, we have already informed the OSCE observation mission about this,” Kuleba emphasized. According to the Minister, the situation can not be interpreted otherwise, the specific intervention was in the internal affairs of Ukraine.

“It is not possible to reduce everything to the Facebook post of my colleague Péter Szijjártó. It is usually about Hungarian politics. Our position is very simple, we evaluated these actions yesterday. The way the Hungarian government behaved the day before and on the elections was in the internal affairs of Ukraine, “said the minister.

During the day, the Hungarian ambassador in Kiev, István Íjgyártó, was requested to attend the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry and was given a protest list.

Peter Szijjártó called the procedure nonsense, saying that “not in a very friendly tone and not with the intention of making friends” the Ukrainians asked about István Bowmaker.


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