Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy issued a statement on Friday saying that reconnaissance drones violated Ukrainian airspace along the Ukraine–Hungary border. In a post on X, the president emphasised that the drones were “most likely” Hungarian.
Preliminary assessments suggest that the drones may have been mapping Ukraine’s border industrial potential. Zelenskyy instructed the military to verify all available information and to submit urgent reports on every recorded incident.
In his post, the president also noted that military leadership received comprehensive reports on the frontlines and border areas on Friday, with a particular focus on the Donetsk and Kharkiv regions. While the primary attention was on the Dobropillia counteroffensive and Russian military losses, the drone incident near the Hungarian border received special mention, highlighting the growing importance of border security.
Zelenskyy thanked the armed forces for their efforts and stressed that every violation of Ukrainian airspace would be thoroughly investigated.
Foreign minister: Ukraine has pursued anti-Hungarian policies for 10 years
Ukraine has been pursuing anti-Hungarian policies for ten years, recently banning three Hungarian military leaders from its territory, while expecting Hungary to support its European Union accession, wrote Péter Szijjártó, Hungary’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, on Facebook on Friday.
According to a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the minister noted that Ukraine has been conducting anti-Hungarian policies for a decade. “The rights of the Hungarian community in Transcarpathia are being taken away, Hungarians are being beaten to death during forced conscription, pipelines essential for a safe Hungarian energy supply are being attacked, and now Hungarian military leaders are being expelled,” he listed.
“They are the ones who expect us to support their EU membership… Surely they cannot be serious…” he added.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha announced on Friday that three high-ranking Hungarian military officials had been banned from entering the country, in response to Hungary’s expulsion of Ukrainian commander Robert Brovdi at the end of August.
UPDATE: Hungarian government’s reaction
Volodymyr Zelensky is becoming obsessed with anti-Hungarian sentiment and is now seeing ghosts, wrote Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, on Facebook on Friday, responding to the Ukrainian president’s claim that Hungarian reconnaissance drones may have violated his country’s airspace.
According to a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the minister said: “President Volodymyr Zelensky is going crazy with anti-Hungarian sentiment, now he’s even seeing ghosts.”
Hungary under Fidesz has become a country hostile to Europe working in alliance with the 21st century Nazi state of Russia. Shoot the Hungarian drones down. We already had Hungarian intelligence spying on Ukrainian defence systems and industrial sites in Transcarpathia which could only be useful information for Russian attack. There is a very hot place waiting in the afterlife for these traitors running Hungary.
Your little green dwarf is halucinating due to much white dust, Hungarian army has very few drone and why would they need to spy on historically Hungarian terroirory they knpw better than ukrainians
Boris. Ukraine has been fighting a war for three and a half years and has been fighting drones like no one else in the world ever has. If anyone has the ability to detect a drone incursion it is the Ukrainians. Fidesz lies and works for Putin. It’s quite obvious. Drones crossed over from Hungary. It is possible that Hungary allowed Russians into Hungary to conduct these drone incursions. The border with Ukraine should be a high security zone so chances are that unless Hungary’s border security is totally incompetent the incursions were done with Hungary’s knowledge or active participation.
Before the Russia Ukraine conflict
Ukraine was trying to start a war with Hungary.
They are back at it again
It would be a fatal mistake for Ukraine to try to expand the war as the Russians are just playing games with zelensky and testing the west