BUDAPEST, Aug 22 Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Economic Relations of Hungary Peter Szijjarto approved the candidacy of the professor of the Uzhgorod National University, who served in the Transcarpathian brigade of the defense, Fedor Shandor as the new Ambassador of Ukraine to Hungary, the Hungarian ATV portal reports, citing sources.
Fyodor Shandor
Last July, Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed the Ukrainian ambassador to Hungary by his decree. At the moment, there is no Ukrainian ambassador in Budapest, a chargé d'affaires is working. On August 8, Hungarian President Katalin Novak signed an agrément for Sandor, Hungarian and Ukrainian media reported.
«As we have learned, Peter Szijjarto has already added a ministerial countersignature to the decision on the agrément of Fyodor Shandor, several of our sources have confirmed this,» the report says.
The publication clarified that the presidential decree appointing Sandor as an ambassador will be published in the official gazette after he arrives in Hungary and presents his credentials to the president.
According to the Ukrainian edition «Strana.ua», Shandor is a professor at the Uzhgorod National University, Doctor of Philosophy. Since February 2022, he became a fighter of the 101st Transcarpathian brigade of the defense, fought. In 2020, Sandor was elected a deputy of the Transcarpathian Regional Council of the eighth convocation from the Servant of the People party.