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Polish PM condemns ‘Hungary’s hurtful words about Ukraine’

06.04.2022 15:30
Poland’s prime minister on Wednesday called on Budapest to denounce Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and condemned "hurtful words about Ukraine coming from the Hungarian capital."
Mateusz Morawiecki speaks during a visit to an adult daycare centre in Wola Karczewska, central Poland, on Wednesday, April 6, 2022.
Mateusz Morawiecki speaks during a visit to an adult daycare centre in Wola Karczewska, central Poland, on Wednesday, April 6, 2022. Twitter/KPRM

Mateusz Morawiecki made the comment during a media briefing in the village of Wola Karczewska in central Poland, the state PAP news agency reported.

Meeting reporters after a visit to an adult daycare centre, Morawiecki said: “We must condemn all the bad, inappropriate, harmful, hurtful words coming from the Hungarian capital.”

He added: “The Hungarian government, too, must be clear about its condemnation of what is happening in Ukraine - there can be no exceptions."

He told reporters: “This is a choice between truth and falsehood and we are definitely standing on the side of truth.”

Orban calls Ukraine's Zelensky an ‘opponent’

Morawiecki’s words came after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Sunday described Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky as one of his “opponents.”

Speaking at a rally after his governing coalition won a landslide victory in the general election, Orban said: "We will remember this victory until the end of our lives because we had to fight against a huge number of opponents." 

He went on to list several of his political adversaries, from the Hungarian left to "bureaucrats" in Brussels and the international media, "and the Ukrainian president too."

Orban added: "We never had so many opponents at the same time."  

Zelensky said on Tuesday that Orban had a choice to make “between Russia and the other world.”

Referring to Hungary's stance on the war in Ukraine, Poland’s Morawiecki vowed he “won’t spare any efforts and resources” to “shake all consciences,” the PAP news agency reported.

Wednesday is day 42 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

(pm/gs)

Source: PAP, cnn.com