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PM Orbán Condemns Bucha Massacre, Supports Intl Investigation

MTI-Hungary Today 2022.04.09.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán evidently condemns the massacre committed in Bucha, Ukraine, his press chief said on Saturday.

Hungary will in every possible form support the international investigation aimed at identifying the perpetrators of that bloodshed, Bertalan Havasi cited the prime minister’s position on Saturday.

Orbán made it clear at his international press conference on Wednesday that “this is a war that Russia started attacking Ukraine, which is aggression,” adding that it is the European Union’s position “which Hungary shares.” The prime minister urged an independent and impartial probe into the atrocities, saying that civilians must be protected and violence against them must be “most firmly condemned”, the press chief said.

Bucha Massacre: Commemoration in Front of Russian Embassy in Budapest to Call Attention to War Crimes
Bucha Massacre: Commemoration in Front of Russian Embassy in Budapest to Call Attention to War Crimes

Photos and videos show dozens if not hundreds of murdered civilians on the streets of Bucha, some of them appearing to have been shot in the back of the head after their hands were tied. Continue reading

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party (PiS), criticized in a Friday interview Orbán for what he called the Hungarian prime minister’s failure to condemn Russia for the murders committed in Bucha.

Featured image: Prime Minister Viktor Orbán visits the border at the Hungarian-Romanian border post in Chengersimai on March 16, 2022. Behind the Prime Minister are Government Spokeswoman Alexandra Szentkirályi and József Kovács, State Secretary for National Information, with Sándor Kovács, Member of Parliament for the region, on the left. Photo by Zoltán Fischer/MTI/Prime Minister’s Press Office


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