REPORTING – Refugees from the Hungarian-speaking minority in Transcarpathia have recently been deprived of housing assistance by Viktor Orban’s government.
Budapest
Unrelenting heat at Budapest’s West (Nyugati) railway station. Four children and their mother, in flip-flops and skimpy outfits, board the train bound for theUkraine. Warm hugs with the father who hoists a heavy suitcase on board, but remains at the quay. kyiv is a thousand kilometers and twenty-four hours away by rail, but his wife and children will get off in four hours, as soon as they cross the Ukrainian border. After two and a half years of exile, they will return – forced – to their region of Transcarpathia.
The UN counts sixty-two thousand Ukrainian refugees in Hungary. According to an amendment passed on June 28, since August 21, housing provided by the state for refugees from Ukraine has been reserved for those from “administrative units directly affected by Ukrainian military operations». Transcarpathia, located in the southwestern tip of the country, about 800 kilometers from the fighting, is not…
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