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Kyiv demands apology from Orban over scarf showing part of Ukraine as Hungarian territory
- Prime Minister Viktor Orban attended a football match wearing a scarf depicting a map of ‘Greater Hungary’ with parts of neighbouring states including Ukraine
- Kyiv said it will summon the Hungarian envoy over the incident and demanded a rebuttal of any Budapest’s claims on Ukrainian territory
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Ukraine will summon the Hungarian ambassador to protest that Prime Minister Viktor Orban went to a football match wearing a scarf depicting some Ukrainian territory as part of Hungary, the Ukrainian foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
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Ukrainian media showed images of Orban meeting a Hungarian footballer wearing a scarf which the outlet Ukrainska Pravda said depicted a map of “Greater Hungary” including territory that is now part of the neighbouring states of Austria, Slovakia, Romania, Croatia, Serbia and Ukraine.
“The promotion of revisionism ideas in Hungary does not contribute to the development of Ukrainian-Hungarian relations and does not comply with the principles of European policy,” Ukrainian ministry spokesperson Oleg Nikolenko wrote on Facebook.
Nikolenko said Ukraine wanted an apology and a rebuttal of any Hungarian claims on Ukrainian territory.
In a Facebook post on Tuesday, Orban did not directly address the controversy over the scarf.
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