"I thank God that the country you are fighting today is not an enemy of Hungary." Orban responded to Viktor Yushchenko's open letter
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban responded to an open letter from former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, urging him to "return to the light." He posted his response on the social network X, reported by "European Truth."

Viktor Orban. Photo: Thanassis Stavrakis / AP
Orban addresses Yushchenko as "my old friend" and begins his letter with a historical overview of how Hungarians have always been fighters for freedom.
"We continue this tradition today. Please warn your President: hands off the freedom of Hungarians. Please convince your President not to blackmail or threaten my country or its leaders," writes the Hungarian Prime Minister.
"Hungarians are a free people. Your fight for freedom does not give you the right to blackmail us or dictate terms to us. Please make your President understand that the state terrorism by which he sabotaged the German Nord Stream gas pipeline will not work against Hungary," Orban asserts.
He also mentioned that Hungary, allegedly, accepted Ukrainian refugees, opening Ukrainian-language schools for children — "something you deny Hungarians in Transcarpathia."
"I thank God that the country you are currently at war with is today not an enemy of Hungary or Hungarians, and we have no intention of changing that. We, as before, want to remain your friends, but we will not participate in your war," Orban writes.
"I wish that your fratricidal war does not end in a fatal weakening of the Ukrainian state and that we can return to the old spirit of Ukrainian-Hungarian friendship," he declares.
At the end of the letter, the Hungarian Prime Minister added that he is ready to offer Yushchenko or his family a "safe place" if he is ever "threatened by any foreign state."
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