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John Woods John Woods · 23/04/2022
· Society

Hungarian cities, villages in Transcarpathia to be under curfew because of suspected Russian attacks!

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Photo: MTI/AP/Andrew Marienko

Local authorities are to introduce a curfew from today evening until tomorrow morning because of suspected missile attacks by the invading Russian forces. More than 150 thousand Hungarians live in Ukraine, most of them concentrated near the Hungarian border. Many fled when the Russian invasion began, but most returned home since the agricultural works started.

The Orthodox Church celebrates Easter this Sunday, and Ukrainian authorities suspect Russian attacks even during the religious holiday. Therefore, they introduced a curfew in Transcarpathia, the first since the Russian invasion began on February 24.

The curfew will be in effect between 11 pm Saturday and 5 am Sunday,

 KárpátHír reported.

The new measure was introduced by the defence council of Transcarpathia, the Ukrainian county near the Hungarian border. Viktor Mikita, the head of the local public administration, said that Ukrainian intelligence suspected provocations and missile attacks everywhere in Ukraine on Easter evening. The possible targets include even churches, they said. There might be many casualties, they added. 

“The aim of the enemy is to create panic and destabilise the situation,”

Ukrainian authorities highlighted.

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Mr Mikita said that the traditional food consecration would be held in every region of Ukraine on April 24 from 5 am. However, he asked everybody to go to the churches only after the end of the curfew. 

That is the first time the authorities introduced a curfew in Transcarpathia since the beginning of the war. Air alerts became regular in the last few weeks. However,

Transcarpathia has not suffered any physical attacks since February 24.

The region is a bridge between the West and Ukraine. Its neighbours are Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, and Poland. 

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Source: KárpátHír

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4 Comments

  1. Anonymous says:
    23/04/2022 at 21:47

    Since these ‘cities’ (small towns) and villages are in Ukraine, they are not Hungarian, irrespective of who lives in them. The headline is misleading.

  2. John Woods says:
    24/04/2022 at 10:58

    Dear NorTheHun, there are Hungarian villages and cities in Ukraine. More than 150 thousand Hungarians live in Transcarpathia, most of them near the Hungarian border. Villages like Barkaszó, Harangláb or Bátyú are 100 pc Hungarian villages even though they are in Ukraine. Since all of them were under curfew between yesterday 11 pm and today 5 am, yes, the article was given the title: Hungarian villages and cities under curfew because of the war.

    About suspected, possible and might: Ukrainian authorities and intelligence services said yesterday that there might be a Russian missile attack during the orthodox easter. Intelligence information is not certainty, it never was. That is why I use these words in the article.

  3. Anonymous2 says:
    24/04/2022 at 16:49

    John Wood I understand your point, but I have to agree with anonymous that this was misleading. My first thought, upon reading the headline, was that Rusdia was targeting cities and villages in Hungary. I immediately wondered why because Hungary is remaining neutral. Then upon reading your article I realize that it was actually Hungarian villages inside of Ukraine, the country in which the conflict is raging. That is called click bait and is misleading.

  4. Levente says:
    24/04/2022 at 19:24

    To put things into perspective regarding the 150,000 people who identify as Hungarian in the Transcarpathian region, the football stadium in Barcelona, Camp Nou, has a capacity of 99,354. There are not enough of these people to even fill the football stadium twice over.

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