Hungarian FM: US arms shipment aims for peace, but EU and Ukraine support war

The Hungarian government will push for the European Union to take a joint stance “on the violent forced conscription going on in Ukraine that resulted in a Hungarian being beaten to death,” Péter Szijjártó, the minister of foreign affairs and trade, said in Budapest on Monday.

Speaking at a press conference on another matter held together with his Moroccan counterpart, Szijjártó called it “shocking” that the international community “looked away as brutal, violent conscriptions in Ukraine are coming to light”. “If a tenth of this happened elsewhere, the EU would rush to condemn it.”

Szijjártó insisted that conscription in Ukraine were often tantamount to “man hunts”. “We have seen the videos… untrained people, who are often unable and unfit to serve, are abducted in front of their families and small children and forced into serving on the fronts,” the Hungarian foreign minister said. Read details: Ukraine denies abuse after death of ethnic Hungarian soldier, Hungary demands answers

“They are beating people to death … for not wanting to go to war, and don’t want to be party to a massacre lacking all rationality. This is unacceptable. This is all happening in the heart of Europe, and European politicians pretend nothing is happening,” he said.