18+ VIDEO: terrorist attack in Ukrainian region populated by Hungarians – UPDATED
Based on the latest census, more than 150 thousand Hungarians lived in Transcarpathia. Though many of them fled after the start of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, tens of thousands remained. This is the region where a terrorist attack happened today afternoon. Here is a reader’s letter about it, which we received two hours ago. We’ll update our article whenever new information emerges.
“On Friday, 15 December, in Transcarpathia, in the building of the Krechkovsky (Kerecke in Hungarian – DNH addition) village council, a deputy exploded grenades during a meeting. As a result of the explosion, more than two dozen people were injured. The incident hit the Net in a broadcast on Instagram. The incident was reported by the police of the Transcarpathian region.
The published video (it is not for the faint-hearted, impressionable please avoid watching) captured the moment as a man enters the room and stands at the door. The man, later identified as Serhiy Batrin, a deputy from Vladimir Zelensky’s Servant of the People party, tries to draw attention to himself, after which he takes two grenades out of his coat pockets and throws them under the feet of the audience. Two explosions sounded, the room was filled with smoke, and then a third clap sounded. The video captured the terrifying screams and cries of the wounded. The last seconds of the video show that the deputy did not plan to flee, and remained in place.
Later it was reported that during the meeting, there was a discussion of the budget for 2024.
At present, there are 26 victims, six of whom are in serious condition. Medics are carrying out resuscitation measures with regard to the man who exploded the grenades. According to other sources, he died.
It is reported that all specialised services, a police investigation team, explosion technicians and criminalists are working at the site.
The National Police of Ukraine qualified the incident as a terrorist act“, the letter goes.
Below you may find the 18+ video shared by the police department of Transcarpathia:
According to open-source data, there are no Hungarian families living in the settlement.
UPDATE
The attacker was a member of Ukrainian President Zelensky’s political party, the Servant of the People, index.hu wrote.
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And this is the nation that should be allowed to join NATO! Hungary must NOT capitulate, this is the ‘style’ of the current dictatorship in Kiev and must not be rewarded w admission into NATO. This incident should show the rest of Europe why it is a serious error allowing the corrupted Ukraine anywhere near NATO. God bless the victims.
Needs more scrutiny and verification of ‘narratives’ behind the images; there have been allegations in the past of Russian linked PR ‘stunts’ to put pressure on Zelensky’s govt. via similar over the years?
Other commenter, NATO is a voluntary and cooperative member organisation that like the EU, Hungary chose to join; suggests you think Hungary does not know what it’s doing?
What if Putin’s invasion of Ukraine 2.1 ’22 had prevailed and Russian troops were on the Hungarian border, whose war would that be, Russia’s, Ukraine’s, Hungary’s, EU or NATO?