Hungary could see more refugee arrivals after Transcarpathia missile attack, says Orbán’s advisor
Hungary could see more refugees crossing its border from Ukraine following Russia’s missile attack on a train station in Transcarpathia (Kárpátalja) on Tuesday, the prime minister’s chief domestic security advisor said.
As we wrote today, the Russians are already shelling Transcarpathia, which is also inhabited by Hungarians! György Bakondi told public current affairs channel M1 on Wednesday that the Russian attacks on western European and US weapons deliveries to Ukraine were likely to continue.
This could result in even more people fleeing “the places in Transcarpathia that appear to be temporarily safe” to Hungary, he said.
If this happens, Hungary will do everything to make sure that the refugees receive the same level of accommodation, care and assistance as those who have arrived so far, he said.
Turning to the issue of illegal immigration, Bakondi said
the Hungarian authorities had apprehended more than 61,000 illegal migrants at the southern border by midnight on Tuesday, adding that some 31,000 illegal border crossers had been caught by this time last year.
He said both human smuggling activity and the number of illegal migrants attempting to enter Hungary had doubled compared with 2021.
Source: MTI
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Just to be clear, for the most part the ‘Hungarians’ in Transcarapathia were born in Ukraine (as were their parents) and have Ukrainian birth certificates and prior to the war were paying tax to the Ukraine government. They have Hungarian heritage but let’s drop this nonsense of calling them Hungarian. My late father was born in that area (in 1922) when it was part of Czechoslovakia. He was Czech, his parents were Hungarian. This ‘ethnic’ concept is relatively new and FAKE.