Hungary summons Russian ambassador over drone strikes on western Ukraine

BUDAPEST, May 13 (Reuters) - Hungary ‌has summoned ​Russia's ​ambassador over a drone attack on western Ukraine, Prime Minister Peter Magyar said on Wednesday.

Russia ‌unleashed a daytime drone attack on Ukraine earlier on ⁠Wednesday, targeting critical infrastructure and killing at least three people in ‌the west and prompting ‌NATO-member Poland to scramble fighter jets.

The Russian ambassador has been summoned to the foreign ministry on Thursday to ​meet foreign minister Anita Orban, Magyar said during a press conference following the first cabinet meeting of ⁠the new Hungarian government.

Orban will condemn the attack at the meeting and ask ​the ambassador when Russia plans to end the more than four-year-old war with Ukraine, he added.

Earlier ​on Wednesday, Orban said in ‌a Facebook video that Hungary "deeply condemns" Russian drone strikes on ethnic Hungarian regions in western ⁠Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy praised the summoning of the Russian ambassador as "an important message."

"Moscow has again demonstrated that it is ⁠a serious threat not only to Ukraine but to all its neighbours ​and to Europe as a whole," Zelenskiy, attending a security gathering in Romania, wrote on Telegram.

Russia's embassy in Budapest did not ‌immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

Former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government maintained ‌a close relationship with Moscow even after Russia's invasion ⁠of Ukraine in 2022.

(Reporting by ‌Gergely Szakacs, Jason ​Hovet and Anita Komuves; Writing by Karol Badohal; Editing by Kirsten Donovan, Ron Popeski and Mark ‌Porter)

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