Two Hungarian soldiers lost their legs after Kosovo attack

Instead of one, two Hungarian KFOR soldiers’ legs were amputated following an attack in Kosovo. According to HVG, a medical error may have led to the drastic intervention.

According to hvg.hu, the Hungarian military officially acknowledged one amputation following an attack against the Hungarian KFOR unit in Kosovo in May. HERE is our article about what happened. Both the leadership of the KFOR and the Hungarian Ministry of Defence remained silent about the attack and its consequences. That is probably because the grim events overshadow the good Serbian-Hungarian relationship the Orbán cabinet always boasts about. However, we know that Serbian nationalists committed a violent attack against the Hungarian soldiers in the small town of Zvecan.

The attack’s antecedent was a Serbian protest against the newly-elected Albanian mayor of the town. However, the Serbs used not only plastic or glass but also homemade explosives and arms. As a result, Italian and Hungarian soldiers suffered serious injuries. Here is a video showing the war-like situation:

Dramatic footage from the streets of Zvecan by @evropaelire. Kosovo police confirms five people were arrested, while at least 41 @NATO_KFOR soldiers were injured, most of them Italian and Hungarian troops. pic.twitter.com/GIM31Ue51y

— Marija Ristić (@Marien__R) May 29, 2023

The Hungarian defence ministry issued only one statement and acknowledged only one amputation. Nevertheless, HVG has information about two soldiers whose legs had to be amputated as a result of the violent attack. Furthermore, according to HVG’s source, one of the drastic surgeries could have been prevented provided a prompt and professional medical intervention.

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Ministry remains silent about the seriously injured soldiers

Twenty-seven Hungarian soldiers were injured in the attack, 7 of them suffered serious injuries. A Hungarian medical team rushed to Kosovo shortly after the bloody fight and took 12 soldiers home for further treatment. On 7 July, two soldiers were kept in Budapest’s military hospital in serious condition. However, the ministry provided no information about their state or the amputations, nor did they make or publish an internal inquiry of the medical error. The Hungarian KFOR unit returned home on 30 August, and each member received the NATO Balkans Medal.