Hungary and Ukraine on Wednesday reached an agreement on the rights of Ukraine's ethnic Hungarian minority, an issue that has long strained relations between the two countries.
The deal will boost Ukraine's longstanding bid to join the EU, with Budapest saying it would drop a veto by former Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Kyiv's accession to the bloc if an agreement were reached.
Kyiv has been pressing to be allowed to join the EU partly to bolster its security as it fights against the full-scale Russian invasion launched in 2022.
What do we know about the minority rights deal?
Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar said on X that the "historic agreement" would improve rights for the more than 100,000 ethnic Hungarians living in Ukraine's western Transcarpathia region.
