Ukraine’s Ambassador to Hungary Liubov Nepop and her Embassy in Budapest have marked the Day of Defender of Ukraine in the Hungarian capital for the first time. This day is a state holiday in Ukraine observed each October 14 since 2014 to honour and pay tribute to the courage of all those who have fought and continue to fight for the state sovereignty of the country, which is a victim of Russian aggression.
Ambassador Nepop hosted the Budapest event at the MOM Park cinema, with guests watching the Ukrainian film “Call Sign ‘Banderas'” and viewing a photo exhibition “Unknown War in the Centre of Europe” by Ukrainian photojournalist Oleksandr Klymenko.
The ambassador said Day of Defender is a symbolic day, connecting past and present of Ukraine, reminding about the Kozaks who defended the country centuries ago and fought for its independence, and reminding about the current fight against Russia, which has annexed Crimea and provoked a war in eastern Ukraine.
The event began with a minute of silence to honour the memory of all those defenders who had sacrificed their lives for Ukraine.
“I also would like to express my gratitude to those who fought and continue fighting now to restore Ukraine’s territorial integrity and bring back peace to our soil,” Ambassador Nepop said.
“At our event we have two Ukrainian military men who are now here in Hungary to receive medical care in the Military Hospital. One more is in the hospital now as he can’t walk. I would like to thank them for defending us and to ask you to welcome them.
“I also would like to express my sincere gratitude to the Hungarian side – to the Minister of Defence who personally supported increasing the quota of Ukrainian wounded soldiers coming here, to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and specially to the Chief of Hospital present here for supporting our soldiers and for supporting us in our fight against Russian aggression to restore territorial integrity and peace.”
Ambassador Nepop said “Call Sign ‘Banderas'” would make viewers understand better what Ukraine is going through and how the Russian hybrid war works in practice. For instance, Russians lie about ordinary Ukrainians killing their own relatives, and the enemy hides itself under the mask of being a sincere patriot. Also, professional Russian military men and representatives of special services masked themselves as local rebels, and Russian propaganda was fed to local people who then became victims of Russian bullets. Further, shelling of peaceful Ukrainian villages was organised by Russia in such a manner that its television groups were given the best places to film and then promptly streamed it, blaming Ukraine for this crime.
The ambassador said the film is not a documentary, and probably because of this it shows reality in some moments even more concentrated than a documentary could. And the photo exhibition showed real scenes of the war with real wounded and real death.
“I hope this film and exhibition will remain in your minds and your hearts and will prevent thoughts to have business as usual with Russia unless it stops its aggression against Ukraine,” Ambassador Nepop said. “Please don’t forget about those 14,000 Ukrainians who already lost their lives, about occupied Crimea and the occupied part of Donbass.
“We will continue defending our country and Europe, and I hope you will continue staying with us. Thank you for coming and thank you for support.”
A Presidential decree, later approved by the Ukrainian parliament, established the Day of Defender as a public holiday on October 14, 2014, “in order to honour the courage and heroism of the defenders of Ukraine’s independence and territorial integrity, military traditions and victories of the Ukrainian people, foster the further strengthening of patriotic spirit in society and support the initiative of the Ukrainian public”. The slogan of the holiday is “Strength of the unbowed”.
The day replaces Defender of the Fatherland Day, which was observed each February 23. The older holiday was seen as a Soviet holiday and no longer appropriate to celebrate given the ongoing disputes with Russia over territory in eastern Ukraine and Crimea.
When US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met in New York in September, Trump casually suggested to his counterpart that he should finalise a peace agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “I’ve heard you actually have, over the last fairly short period of time, you’ve really made some progress with Russia,” Trump said. “I hear a lot of progress has been made. And just keep it going. Be nice to end that whole disaster.”
Simple, really.
This film has a very good rating on the IMBd website, and some very good reviews. Of course one or two of the reviews come from the trolls, calling it Ukrainian civil war propaganda, but stats don’t tell lies, this film has a rating of 7.3/10. Compare that to the crap made by RT, Crimea Bridge: Made With Love! Which only has a rating of 1.2/10.
I’m all for keeping the focus on Putler’s wars. I can’t wait to see it and I’m glad Hungary is helping the vets.
Slava Ukraini~~!!
“Trump said. “I hear a lot of progress has been made. And just keep it going. Be nice to end that whole disaster.”
These despicable words are part of a pattern of ignorance and sociopathic indifference to other people’s suffering. He obviously gets his information from putlerite turds like Giuiliani.
A few days ago he threw the Kurds under a bus and unwittingly or wittingly sparked off a Turkish invasion. Invading Turks behave exactly like Russians and nazis. The Kurds are a people, not a religion: most are muslim because it was forced on them by the Ottomans, but many are Christian, Yezidi or Zoroastrian. Their courageous fighters, with American and British special forces help, liberated thousands of Yezidi women and girls from the fiends of isis. They then took responsibility for the imprisoning isis vermin, with their wives and kids. Because the Turks don’t see isis even as an enemy, they bombed these facilities and there are now 1000 dangerous scum roaming free. Probably many will join the bogus asylum caravans heading for Europe. Well done Trumpkov, you fucking imbecile.
Question is: is he preparing to give putlerstan the green light to do whatever it wants in Ukraine?
With the Buffoon Goon sitting in the position of POTUS, anything is possible!
Now the Kurds have teamed up with Assad, so Turkey will be fighting indirectly against Russia, or maybe even directly against Russia if Assad gets his ass kicked.
The last two words of the article really apply to President Bonespurs, the draft and rain dodger; simple really.
He is simple. Has no understanding of diplomacy and international affairs. Figures he can wave his hand or dikk over a situation and call it good like he made a grand business deal. Between him and Rabid Giulliani, they both need a lengthy time in a dungeon. I can not see that happening as the next president will hand him a pardon, like Ford did with Tricky Dicky.
Giulliani is working to destroy US diplomacy for Trumpkov and his business interests. Out of this Rabid Giulliani should be investigated for insider trading on top of the rest of what kriminal activity they find on him.