We, Hungarian citizens, the signatories of this letter, faced with the Orbán government’s increasingly shameful anti-Ukrainian propaganda, express our solidarity with the Ukrainian people and pay tribute to the soldiers of the Ukrainian army who heroically defend their country.
Our message is: there is another Hungary, one that does not expect benefit from serving foreign interests.
We unreservedly condemn the Russian military aggression having started in 2014, which grew into open warfare in 2022, and reject the attempt to question Ukraine’s territorial integrity and to interfere in its internal affairs.
As heirs of the 1956 Hungarian fight for independence, we appreciate the service that Ukraine is doing for us Hungarians and for the whole of Europe by resisting Russian imperialist expansion. We are doing our utmost to provide all possible humanitarian assistance to the victims of the war who are seeking refuge in our country.
We hope to see the ending of the war as soon as possible, the starting of peace negotiations and an agreement that would provide strong security guarantees for a lasting peace, reparations and accountability for war criminals. We also wish to see the reconstruction of Ukraine to begin as soon as possible. The nations of Europe must be united to ensure that a war like this never broke out on our continent again.
It is the vital interest of Hungary that our neighbour should not be a vassal of Putin’s Russia, but an independent democracy providing equal rights for all its citizens, irrespective of language, nationality and religion.
We send our letter in the hope that the Hungarian minority in Ukraine, many of whom have given their lives for the freedom of Ukraine, will not fall victim to the politically motivated and shameful communication of the Hungarian government, and that neither the Ukrainian people nor their leaders will question their loyalty but will appreciate their sacrifices.
Issued by
Zoltán Beck – musician, associate professor, Roma Studies
Péter Á. Bod – professor of economics, former minister, and Governor of the National Bank
Gábor Dénes – director
István Elek – political commentator, writer, former MP, former chief adviser to the prime minister
Attila Ferenczi – habil. associate professor, Ancient and Classical Studies
Zoltán Fleck – jurist, sociologist
Tamás Fodor – actor, director
János Gerzson – musician, activist
Károly Herényi – former MP
Zsuzsa Hetényi – literary historian, Russist, university professor, writer
Róza Hodosán – sociologist, former MP
Péter Horgas – visual designer, activist
Gábor Iványi – pastor, former MP
Géza Jeszenszky – professor of history, former minister of foreign affairs
József Kajdi – jurist, former head of the prime minister’s office
Péter Karsai – teacher, former MP
Gyula Kincses – physician, former MP, former head of the Chamber of Physicians
János Kis – philosopher
Gergő Kiss – student activist
Nóra L. Ritók – educator, child protection activist
György Lakatos – musician, teacher
Balázs Láng – journalist, activist
András Lányi – philosopher, writer
Júlia Lázár – translator, poet
Mária Ludassy – professor emeritus, Philosophy
Bálint Magyar – sociologist, former minister of education
Fruzsina Magyar – dramaturg
Áron Molnár – actor
Gábor Noszkai – lawyer
Tibor Nyerges – former MP
József Oláh – social worker, cultural anthropologist
Noel Perlaki-Borsos – university student, activist
Gábor Polyák – professor, Media and Communication
Edina Pottyondy – influencer, stand-up comedian
Róbert Puzsér – political writer
József Pálinkás – professor of physics, former minister of education, former president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Katalin Remport – lawyer, former MP
Gábor Roszík – Lutheran pastor, former MP
András Spányik – doctor, activist
Tamás Stark – historian
Stefano Bottoni – historian, Associate Professor
Zoltán Sz. Bíró – historian
István Szent-Iványi – ambassador, former state secretary
Péter Szepesházi – lawyer
Bernadett Szél – economist, former MP
Erika Törzsök – sociologist, former state secretary
Krisztián Ungváry – research professor, Hungarian Academy of Sciences PhD
Csaba Vágó – lawyer
Tibor Várkonyi – lawyer
Imre Vörös – jurist, former member of the Constitutional Court, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
and another 50.000+ Hungarian citizens, whose number is increasing…