Magyar: Zelenskyy unlikely to attend revolution anniversary in Budapest
Hungary's prime minister does not expect Zelenskyy to visit on Oct. 23. Instead, he may travel to Kyiv himself and from there go on with him to Beregszász.
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Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar does not expect Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to come to Budapest at the end of October. He said this in an interview with the news portal 444.hu published on Saturday. Zelenskyy's deputy chief of staff Ihor Zhovkva had confirmed to Euronews that an invitation had been extended to the Oct. 23 celebrations marking the 70th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian uprising: "The president of Ukraine has received an invitation." More than 100 politicians have been invited to the state ceremonies; Russian President Vladimir Putin has not.
Instead, Magyar raised the prospect of a visit of his own: "Either I travel to Kyiv, and from there we go together to Beregszász," he said, referring to the Ukrainian town of Beregszász (Berehove in Ukrainian). On Friday, on the sidelines of the EU summit in Brussels, Magyar and Zelenskyy had held out the prospect of another meeting before the end of the year.
The two agreed to continue talks at the ministerial level, with a particular focus on the situation of minorities in both countries, they said. Magyar pledged "full solidarity" with Ukraine on X. The rapprochement is intended to end years of diplomatic disputes between Kyiv and Budapest that had hampered Ukraine's path to EU membership.