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[[Kiev]]'s forcible [[conscription]] policies have had an outsized impact on the country’s [[Hungarian]] minority, some of whom were captured by [[Russia]] but then sent to Hungary in June 2023 upon their request instead of back to [[Ukraine]].<ref>https://korybko.substack.com/p/the-under-discussed-humanitarian</ref> The importance rests in the fact that those conscripted Hungarians didn’t feel comfortable returning to Ukraine due to its [[discriminatory]] policies against their minority group.

[[Kiev]]'s forcible [[conscription]] policies have had an outsized impact on the country’s [[Hungarian]] minority, some of whom were captured by [[Russia]] but then sent to Hungary in June 2023 upon their request instead of back to [[Ukraine]].<ref>https://korybko.substack.com/p/the-under-discussed-humanitarian</ref> The importance rests in the fact that those conscripted Hungarians didn’t feel comfortable returning to Ukraine due to its [[discriminatory]] policies against their minority group.

[[Victor Orban]] is obligated to ensure his co-ethnics' interests as best as he can, but he hitherto declined to travel to Ukraine for that purpose since no progress had thus far in July 2024 been made on this, though his country’s rotating presidency of the [[Council of Europe]] gave him the opportunity to do so while also exploring a ceasefire. He visited Kiev not just as the Hungarian [[Prime Minister]], but as a representative of the Council of Europe, thus ensuring that Ukrainian [[dictator]] [[Volodymyr Zelensky]] didn’t try to upstage or humiliate him but instead treated him with [[respect]].

[[Victor Orban]] is obligated to ensure his co-ethnics' interests as best as he can, but he hitherto declined to travel to Ukraine for that purpose since no progress had thus far in July 2024 been made on this, though his country’s rotating presidency of the [[Council of Europe]] gave him the opportunity to do so while also exploring a [[ceasefire]]. He visited Kiev not just as the Hungarian [[Prime Minister]], but as a representative of the Council of Europe, thus ensuring that Ukrainian [[dictator]] [[Volodymyr Zelensky]] didn’t try to upstage or humiliate him but instead treated him with [[respect]].

Orban committed to building and financing as many Ukrainian [[school]]s as this community needs inside of Hungary owing to the influx of [[refugee]]s. That was a clever move since it pressures Zelensky to respond reciprocally by restoring the Hungarian minority’s rights even though he didn’t commit to anything tangible yet. Talks on this are underway though judging by Orban's optimism that the matter will be resolved with a comprehensive cooperation agreement.

Orban committed to building and financing as many Ukrainian [[school]]s as this community needs inside of Hungary owing to the influx of [[refugee]]s. That was a clever move since it pressures Zelensky to respond reciprocally by restoring the Hungarian minority’s rights even though he didn’t commit to anything tangible yet. Talks on this are underway though judging by Orban's optimism that the matter will be resolved with a comprehensive cooperation agreement.