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Russian troops capture “forcefully recruited” Hungarian citizen in Ukraine
Russia’s defence ministry reported capturing a soldier of dual Ukrainian-Hungarian citizenship on its Telegram channel on Wednesday.
The man, identified as Albert Roman, had lived in Hungary since 2020 but was detained by Ukraine’s authorities upon his return, and was taken to a recruitment centre in Uzhhorod (Ungvár). A medical examination at the centre found the man fit for service “despite having meningitis, several fractures and 11 concussions”, the statement said. According to the document, the man was then sent to a battalion “from where less than one percent of soldiers return”.
Roman surrendered to Russian troops in the Pokrovsk area on 19 February, the Russian ministry said according to the Hungarian News Agency.
The POW recounted that, wounded by shrapnel amid the rubble of a collapsed building, he pleaded to be evacuated; yet his own side did not even drop him a first-aid kit. Forced to drink his own urine, he received word over the radio from his commander that his position had been declared forfeit. According to an account also publicised by the RIA Novosti news agency, he surrendered without resistance to the Russian troops, who gave him water and food.
‘Expectation that Hungarian troops go to Ukraine stated for first time’, says Hungarian FM Szijjártó
“The expectation that Hungarian troops should go to Ukraine was stated for the first time at Monday’s meeting of European Union foreign ministers,” Péter Szijjártó, the foreign minister, said in Budapest on Wednesday.
In a statement issued by his ministry, Szijjártó said there was “a new quality in Brussels”.
“For the first time, the expectation that Hungarian soldiers should also go to Ukraine was expressed, and it became clear that the European Commission and the Ukrainians were colluding to block oil transport via the Druzhba oil pipeline,” the minister said.
“My colleague from Luxembourg, who asked the Ukrainian foreign minister why Hungarian and Slovak experts were not going to Ukraine to inspect the pipeline, if there was this contradiction, after long seconds of silence and staring, he managed to blurt out that he still had to have consultations about this,” he added.
Oil deliveries on hold for political reasons
“So it has practically been proven what both the Slovaks and we know from the Ukrainian system operator, namely that there is no technical, physical or engineering obstacle to the resumption of oil transport on the Druzhba pipeline,” Szijjártó said.
“And when it was said that Hungarian and Slovak experts should go to Ukraine, then Kaja Kallas, the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, said ‘the Hungarians and the Slovaks should send soldiers to Ukraine instead.’ This was the first time that the expectation that we should send soldiers was openly, clearly and directly stated,” Szijjártó said.
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The Russians demonstrably leave their own wounded soldiers behind on the battlefield, are unable to provide them with adequate medical care, or send them wounded back to the front. Many Ukrainian prisoners are simply shot in a fit of rage (the International Criminal Court in The Hague is investigating this and has been gathering evidence for some time).
But they rescue a wounded Hungarian immediately. I simply don’t believe that the whole story unfolded only that way. As I’ve already said, the election campaign is getting dirtier and dirtier.