Allegations of armoured vehicle supply to Ukraine false, says official

Budapest, August 21 (MTI) – Allegations that Hungary supplied armoured vehicles to Ukraine have been false and it was verified at a joint session of two parliamentary committees on Thursday, a senior committee official said.

Last week’s report by Hungarian news website hidfo.net on Hungary’s alleged supply of armoured vehicles including T-72 tanks to Ukraine came up at the joint meeting of the foreign affairs and national security committees that focused on the crisis in Ukraine, Szilard Nemeth, the deputy head of the national security committee, representing the ruling Fidesz party, told reporters.

“I regard this whole T-72 tanks issue as nothing else but a by-product of a heated election campaign surrounding the upcoming local elections in October,” he said.

Nemeth insisted that it could be verified on basis of registry numbers that Hungarian armoured vehicles had not been exported.