Hungary has impeded Ukraine's Euro-Atlantic integration talks over what Budapest views as Kyiv curtailing the rights of ethnic Hungarians in Ukraine’s Zakarpattia Oblast, Hungarian Foreign Ministry Secretary of State, Levente Magyar, said on Sept. 15.
Stellas Aslanov, political science professor at Uzhhorod National University, spoke to NV about the mood of ethnic Hungarians in Zakarpattya Oblast and Russia’s infamous tendency to play the "Hungarian card" in Ukraine.
Hungarian President Katalin Novak has arrived in Ukraine's westernmost Zakarpattia Oblast, meeting local officials and leaders of the local Hungarian ethnic community, the Hungarian news portal Telex reported on Aug. 22.