Hundreds of demonstrators held a rally in Budapest dedicated to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia, including marching to the Russian Embassy.
According to the independent Hungarian publication Telex, people gathered on Saturday afternoon in the central city park in Budapest, and then, in a slow march with a several-hundred-meter-long Ukrainian flag, proceeded to the Russian Embassy.
The majority of the demonstrators were Ukrainians living in Hungary. Also joining the rally were the US Ambassador David Cornstein and the Mayor of Budapest, Gergely Karácsony, who is oppositional to the government of Viktor Orbán.
"Russia is killing children", "Stop Putin, stop the war!", "Russia is killing Ukraine!", "Support Ukraine with weapons!" were the demands of the protesters.
A stage was set up near the Russian Embassy, where images depicting the consequences of the Russian-Ukrainian war were displayed on a screen.
Mayor of Budapest, Gergely Karácsony, during his speech, demanded that the Russians "go back home."
"I was 14 years old when I shouted this for the last time, when we demolished the Lenin monument in Debrecen," Karácsony said, adding that he never thought he would have to demand this again after 35 years.
He recommended Viktor Orbán to go to Bucha and Kyiv and talk to those who survived.
"We are ashamed of the Hungarian government," said the mayor of the Hungarian capital.
In his speech, Karácsony referred to Orbán as "Putin's most important student," who, according to him, "strangles" Budapest.
