Ukraine’s ambassador to Hungary has been summoned to the foreign ministry “over continued forced conscription” in Ukraine, “which has claimed the lives of another two ethnic Hungarian youths,” Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Monday.

The ministry quoted Szijjártó as saying that “an open manhunt is under way in Ukraine in order to maintain the war.” The minister said that a young man of dual Ukrainian-Hungarian citizenship, a resident of Berehove (Beregszasz), was detained by “violent manhunters ordered from Odessa“, despite the young man holding a valid exemption from the draft.

Another young man of Hungarian ethnicity “with mental problems” has “also been kidnapped and has now disappeared,” Szijjártó said.

The Ukrainian ambassador was summoned to the ministry to express Hungary’s protest against “forced conscription and open manhunt in the street“, the minister said. Szijjártó slammed the EU for “pouring unlimited funds into an entirely hopeless and senseless war … bringing more deaths, more suffering and more manhunts every day.

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