Slovak minister: Hungary trains Ukrainian soldiers! – UPDATED

The Orbán cabinet made it clear multiple times that they would not deliver weapons to Ukraine or train Ukrainian soldiers. Hungary provides humanitarian help for the refugees and the local Ukrainians and offered medical treatment for injured Ukrainian soldiers. However, the Slovak defence minister said yesterday that Hungary even trained Ukrainian soldiers. Huge turn in the government’s Ukraine policy?

Ukrainian soldiers on training in Hungary?

According to Paraméter, a Hungarian news outlet in Slovakia (where more than 10 percent of the population is Hungarian), a shocking statement resurfaced made by the Slovak minister for defence, Jaroslav Naď. He and the minister for foreign affairs, Rastislav Káčer, took part in a discussion about the war in Ukraine in Nagymihály, East Slovakia. That was the 23rd part of the #HlbokáOnline series.

However, a pro-Russia group appeared at the discussion and provoked the ministers by shouting and yelling. Based on the report of the Paraméter, the two members of the Bratislava cabinet tolerated the circumstances quite well. Answering a question, Naď said that Czechia and Poland provided more help to Ukraine than Slovakia. “And who else should we help, if not our neighbour”, he added. That is when somebody from the pro-Russia group in the audience shouted that Hungary could decline such help.

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The Slovak defence minister highlighted that even the Hungarians were helping. He said that it was only propaganda that Budapest did not help. He added that Hungary trained Ukrainian soldiers on Hungarian soil. “Maybe you do not even know that”, he replied to the Russia fan partaker.