Hungarian donations not reaching those in need in Ukraine?

Hungarian ATV wrote that many aid shipments become looted. Furthermore, police found suspicious goods at a filling station near Técső, Transcarpathia, only a couple of kilometres away from the Hungarian border. They said the products were being sold for money even though they arrived as donation.

According to ATV, Ukrainian police shared a video of goods being sold at a Técső fuel station even though they arrived as donation to the war-stricken country. One of the biggest Hungarian aid groups’ officials said they did everything to get goods to those in need. “We support institutions with the aid offered by Hungarian people, and our co-workers in Transcarpathia give them to those in need,” he said.

Lujza Balázs is from Tiszaújlak, Transcarpathia. She said they had not seen any aid packages yet.

She added that there were many internally displaced Ukrainians in their settlement, suggesting that they probably received the donations instead of the local Hungarians.

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The number of Ukrainian refugees coming to Hungary is still high. According to MTI, a total of 3,938 people crossed into Hungary directly from Ukraine on Monday, while another 6,140 people from Ukraine crossed from Romania, the national police headquarters said. Police issued temporary residence permits valid for thirty days to 485 people, the police website said on Monday. Holders of such permits must contact a local immigration office near their place of residence within thirty days to apply for permanent documents, it said.

Budapest police received 354 refugees, 136 children among them, by train, according to the municipal police website.

Cooperating authorities provided transport and accommodation for 12 people, 7 children among them, in and around Budapest,

the website said.

Refugees arriving on special train services at Kőbánya felső railway station, in eastern Budapest, were taken by bus to the BOK sports and events centre serving as a humanitarian transit point.