Transcarpathian Hungarian soldiers liberate towns near Kharkiv

In the second half of September, the 68th Transcarpathian Battalion participated in the Kharkiv operation. Among the many brave soldiers, there were Hungarians, too. The first soldiers to enter some of the towns, near the Russian border, were also Hungarian. This is how Sándor Fedir reported the new advancements from the front in Ukraine.

Sándor Fedir posted on Facebook his new report from the battlefield, after reclaiming a Ukrainian village from the Russian forces. Sándor Fedir is a well-known figure in Transcarpathia, but he also appeared in the Hungarian media. He is a professor at the Ungvár National University and a tourism expert. On 23 October, the battalion remembered the revolution of 1956 with the famous “Ruszkik Haza!” (“Russki, go home!”) quote. In the short video, we can see the symbol of the revolution, the Hungarian flag with a hole in the middle, symbolising the similarities of the events.

In an interview with kiszo.net, Sándor also said:

I do not just fight for the independence and sovereignty of Ukraine, but also so that the next generation can live in a civilised world.

The story of Sándor

On the day of the Russian invasion, the man who has never seen war before went to sign up to become a conscript. After an intensive few weeks of training, he went to the battlefield where he spent more than a hundred days. He just got his first chance to have a 10-day break from the horrors of war. He said that he just realised that everything he is interested in is just secondary. He said:

First comes my family and then my home country.

He would have never thought that Russia would invade Ukraine because he did not see the logic in it. By now,, he realised that this war has no economic incentive, but this is a cultural war. He said Russia wants to destroy Ukraine and its identity. His main goal was to prevent the war from reaching Transcarpathia and then later the neighbouring countries: Hungary, Slovakia, Poland and Czechia.