Years of tensions between Hungary and Ukraine burst into public view, when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky castigated Hungarian leader Viktor Orban via video link as he spoke to a meeting of EU leaders.
Mr. Zelensky has frequently used his addresses to parliaments to criticize governments for failing to do enough to support Kiev--at times incurring the wrath of some in his audience. But his remarks Thursday, posted online later by the president’s office, were unusually personal.
“I visited your waterfront. I saw this memorial,” he said in remarks carried on Ukrainian television. “Listen, Viktor, do you know what’s going on in Mariupol? Please if you can go to your waterfront, and you will see how mass killings can happen again in today’s world. And that’s what Russia is doing today.”
Mr. Orban, whom officials described as sitting in the meeting listening to the remarks expressionless, didn't respond to Mr. Zelensky immediately. “Some countries again raised the issue of extending sanctions to energy, coal, gas and oil. In fact, the Ukrainian president himself…asked us to do the same,” he said.
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