‘He cares about Hungarians’: the small Ukrainian town divided over Orbán

In Berehove, a small town of about 30,000 in Ukraine’s Zakarpattia region, Hungarian is heard as often as Ukrainian. Photograph: Julia Kochetova/The Guardian

Across much of Ukraine, Sunday’s parliamentary election in Hungary is being followed with a singular hope: that Viktor Orbán, the Kremlin-friendly leader who has made opposition to Kyiv a centrepiece of his campaign, will be voted out after 16 years in office.

But in Berehove, the mood is more complicated.