New Ukrainian Ambassador Presents Credentials

The new Ukrainian Ambassador to Hungary, Fedir Sandor officially took office this Thursday after presented his credentials to the President of the Republic, Tamás Sulyok, in the Hungarian capital.

Fedir Sandor is a professor at the Uzhhorod National University, but since the beginning of the current Russian invasion of Ukraine, he has been a soldier in the 101st Transcarpathian Brigade to defend his country against the aggressors. Last May, a powerful photo of him was published, giving lectures to his students from the trenches, with gun in hand, during breaks in the fighting. He is also a tourism expert, a sociologist and works on urban and regional projects.

The new ambassador arrived in Budapest on February 25, this year. Ukraine had not had an ambassador in Hungary since the departure – after six years – of Ambassador Liubov Nepop in July 2022.

Other ambassadors presenting their credentials to the head of state in the Sándor Palace in Budapest this Thursday included Mihail Barbulat of the Republic of Moldova; Maurice Odhiambo of the Republic of Kenya; Mohammed Sameer Hindawi of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan; Andrew Rive Williams of New Zealand; and Camila Malvina Márquez Araujo of the Republic of Chile.

President Sulyok wished the diplomats every success in their work to strengthen relations between their country and Hungary.