Ukraine has accused Hungary of including anti-Ukrainian lies in its eighth-grade geography textbooks. Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs is demanding that Hungarian education authorities correct the information to match their country’s position.
Ukrainian diplomats have already held a meeting at the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, during which they emphasized the inadmissibility of presenting unreliable and distorted facts about Ukraine and demanded the correction of false information. “- the spokesman of the ministry Oleg Nikolenko wrote on social media on Wednesday.
The said textbook has been published on the National Public Education Portal. Among other things, it indicates that the only mountains in Ukraine are the Carpathians, thus excluding the Crimean Mountains. But Ukraine still maintains its sovereignty over the Crimean peninsula, which seceded from Ukrainian rule in 2014 and joined Russia.
Another part of the textbook states that the Russian and Ukrainian languages have many similarities, that most of eastern Ukraine is inhabited by ethnic Russians, and that about a fifth of Ukraine’s population speak both Russian and Ukrainian languages. Despite the similarities, the two ethnic groups are often at odds with each other, and the textbook notes that this turmoil “led to an armed conflict on the Crimean peninsula.”
A satirical image of a bear wearing a Russian flag tearing down a Ukrainian flag and two people with the US and EU symbols on their backs were accompanied by the caption “Who owns Ukraine?” and asking that.