Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Oleg Nikolenko demands that Hungary correct the geography textbook for the 8th grade.
The reason is that, according to the Ukrainian press, this textbook for Hungarian schoolchildren contains a number of facts that do not correspond to reality.
For example, as the media write, the Carpathians are designated as “the only high mountains” in Ukraine.
And at the foot of the Carpathians, the textbook teaches children, “historic Hungarian cities are lined up.”
Ukrainian media outlets considered this an attempt to deprive the country of “sovereignty over the Crimean mountains,” MIA Rossiya Segodnya.
Journalists also noticed in the textbook an image of the Ukrainian flag being torn apart by a Russian bear and men with symbols of the United States and the European Union.
Under this drawing, the media write, there is a question: “Who should Ukraine belong to?”
On this occasion, Oleg Nikolenko says that Ukrainian diplomats held a meeting at the Hungarian Foreign Ministry.
During the event, his colleagues drew the interlocutors’ attention to the fact that they consider the presentation of “unreliable and distorted facts about Ukraine” unacceptable.
We demand that the false information in the textbook be corrected as soon as possible,” Nikolenko said.
