The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry is summoning the Hungarian ambassador because of a scandalous statement by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleh Nikolenko has said.
"Speaking to journalists, the Hungarian prime minister compared Ukraine to Afghanistan and called it a 'no man's land'. This is another disrespectful statement by Viktor Orban about Ukraine. Such statements are categorically unacceptable. Budapest continues to pursue a course of deliberate destruction of Hungarian-Ukrainian relations, significantly undermining the possibility of further dialogue between the two neighbouring countries," Nikolenko said.
He added that a "frank conversation" would be held with the Hungarian ambassador.
"We reserve the right to take other response measures," Nikolenko added.
The Hungarian news website Metropol shared a fake report that "hundreds of bodies of Ukrainian soldiers are stored in refrigerated trucks just a few hundred meters from the border with Hungary".
Meanwhile, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that Budapest would veto any EU sanctions against Russia related to nuclear energy.