{"id":1524087,"date":"2022-06-20T13:50:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T17:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1524087"},"modified":"2022-06-20T13:50:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T17:50:37","slug":"fact-check-did-hungarian-prime-minister-viktor-orban-say-he-does-not-care-about-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-hungarian-prime-minister-viktor-orban-say-he-does-not-care-about-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban Say He Does Not Care About Ukraine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-hungarian-prime-minister-viktor-orban-say-he-does-not-care-about-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1524087&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TPNAfrica\/posts\/1014906935882458\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said he does not care about Ukraine because he is Hungarian.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is no record of Orban making such a statement. A spokesperson for the Hungarian government denied the claim.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The war in Ukraine has now raged for nearly five months and claimed the lives of more than 4,500 civilians, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/news\/2022\/06\/ukraine-civilian-casualty-update-17-june-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.N.<\/a> Heavy fighting continues to occur in east Ukraine, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-60506682\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>A post shared on Facebook claims Orban recently said he does not care about the situation in Ukraine despite Hungary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Hungary\/@48.3434467,18.9209502,6z\/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x4741837bdf37e4c3:0xc4290c1e1010!8m2!3d47.162494!4d19.5033041\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sharing a border<\/a> with the country. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/04\/08\/fact-check-soros-zelesnkyy-pentagon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did A Pentagon Official Say George Soros And Volodymyr Zelenskyy Are Cousins?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHungarian PM Viktor Orban responding to #Zelensky: \u2018I don\u2019t care about the States and #Ukraine. I am a Hungarian by nationality, and I do not want to lose my country because of an idiot who made a massacre in the center of Europe, and with whom, with Russia,&#8217;\u201d reads the post.<\/p>\n<p>There is no record of Orban making such a statement. Check Your Fact found no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=viktor+orban+idiot+who+made+a+massacre+in+europe&#038;oq=viktor+orban+idiot+who+made+a+massacre+in+europe&#038;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.6562j0j7&#038;sourceid=chrome&#038;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">credible news reports<\/a> attributing such a comment to the prime minister nor could the quote be found anywhere on the Hungarian government\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/2015-2019.kormany.hu\/en\/search#category=all&#038;search=idiot+massacre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>. There is likewise no record of it on\u00a0Orban\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/primeminister.hu\/search\/?q=idiot%20who%20made%20a%20massacre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/primeminister.hu\/vikstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>, which includes archives of all of his speeches, interviews and letters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\">\u201cThe quote attributed to Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n does not belong to him,\u201d said a spokesperson for Hungary\u2019s International Communications Office in an email to Check Your Fact. \u201cThe post you are referring to is fake news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hungary has condemned Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine and sent at least 37 million euros in aid to the war-torn country, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/hungary-offers-eur-37-m-in-aid-to-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hungary Today<\/a>. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees have also crossed through Hungary and more than 24,000 have been granted temporary permission to stay in the country, the <a href=\"https:\/\/data.unhcr.org\/en\/situations\/ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.N.<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>While Orban has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miniszterelnok.hu\/exclusive-interview-with-prime-minister-viktor-orban-on-m1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pledged<\/a> to keep Hungary out of the war he has also welcomed Ukrainian refugees and expressed his willingness to help them, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miniszterelnok.hu\/exclusive-interview-with-prime-minister-viktor-orban-on-m1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post shared on Facebook claims Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said he does not care about Ukraine because he is Hungarian.Verdict: FalseThere is no record of Orban making such<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1524087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1524087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1524087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1524087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1524087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}