Hungarian citizens evacuated from Afghanistan

Hungary’s military allies have evacuated 26 Hungarian citizens from Kabul to Tashkent, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday.

Foreign ministry state secretary Levente Magyar had said earlier that Hungary would launch an operation in Kabul to evacuate Hungarians and their Afghan helpers.

“After consulting with Hungary, our military allies have flown 26 Hungarian citizens out of Afghanistan,”

the ministry said in a statement.

Magyar had said that Hungary was also prepared to help Afghan citizens who had helped the Hungarian troops in the country, as well as their families. This group, he said, numbers a few hundred people.

“We know who they are, and they are in mortal danger, so it is our moral duty to help them,”

Magyar said.

Magyar said Afghanistan-related tasks are fulfilled by cargo planes starting from the airport in Pápa, western Hungary. The details of the operation are under NATO command and are confidential, he said.

Source: MTI