Hungary summons Russian ambassador over drone strikes on western Ukraine


Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar delivers a speech on the day new members of government take their oath of office in the Parliament, in Budapest, Hungary, May 12, 2026. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

BUDAPEST, May 13 (Reuters) - ⁠Hungary has summoned Russia's ambassador over a ⁠drone attack on western Ukraine, Prime Minister ‌Peter Magyar said on Wednesday.

Russia unleashed a daytime drone attack on Ukraine earlier on Wednesday, targeting critical infrastructure and ​killing at least three people ⁠in the west ⁠and prompting NATO-member Poland to scramble fighter jets.

The Russian ⁠ambassador ‌has been summoned to the foreign ministry on Thursday morning to meet ⁠foreign minister Anita Orban, Magyar said during ​a press ‌conference following the first cabinet meeting of ⁠the new ​Hungarian government.

Orban will condemn the attack at the meeting and ask the ambassador when Russia plans ⁠to end the more than four-year-old ​war with Ukraine, he added.

Earlier on Wednesday, Orban said in a Facebook video that Hungary "deeply condemns" ⁠Russian drone strikes on ethnic Hungarian regions in western Ukraine.

Russia's embassy in Budapest did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

Former ​Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's ⁠government maintained a close relationship with Moscow even ​after Russia's invasion of Ukraine ‌in 2022.

(Reporting by Gergely Szakacs, ​Jason Hovet and Anita Komuves; Writing by Karol Badohal; Editing by Kirsten Donovan)

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