Defence minister: All known Hungarians in Afghanistan evacuated
The Hungarian Armed Forces has evacuated altogether 540 people from Afghanistan, including all Hungarian citizens known to be in the country, Hungarian Defence Minister Tibor Benkő said on Thursday.
Besides Hungarian citizens, the Hungarian forces have also transported US, Austrian and Afghan citizens in a seven-day operation started on August 19, he told a press conference.
All Hungarians requesting assistance were brought back to Hungary, as were all Afghan citizens who had cooperated with the Hungarian armed forces over its 18-year deployment and requested evacuation “on time”, Benkő said.
Some 87 percent of “Afghans with ties to Hungary” were evacuated, including 57 families and 180 children, he said.
Romulusz Ruszin-Szendi, Commander of the Hungarian Armed Forces, said the “Hungarian soldiers have written history” in managing an “evacuation operation with unparallelled challenges in recent history”.
The government ordered the evacuation of Hungarian citizens on August 17, and the army’s resources were scrambled by the afternoon the next day. The operation started early on August 19, he added.
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Source: MTI
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Well done.
Now, it is time to do something unusual. Talk to China, ask them to put pressure on the Taliban to either protect the perimeter of the Kabul Airport of let a mixture of NATO and Chinese soldiers protect the US evacuation. If Hungarian soldiers would not be attacked in Afghanistan, then, help the US with the evacuation.
I know, this is an unusual idea, especially after all the nonsense of Biden and Blinken propaganda. There could be a Hungarian descendant among the 12 US Marines that were killed. I am sure, that all the Hungarian veterans who served in Afghanistan feel the pain of the death of the Marines.
Super. Thank you for the job well done.
Well done to the Hungarian army. The sights they would have witnessed would have been indescribable. Heartbreaking. We wait and see what happens now, it won’t end well, two terror groups will now be fighting each other, and caught in the middle will be Afghan civilians. ISIS-K who are prepared to blow themselves up for their fanatical beliefs, that’s not martyrdom it’s sickening murder.