Information broadcast on Friday earlier by Ukraine on the discovery of a Hungarian spy network in the Ukrainian province of Transcarpathia is part of Kiev's anti-Hungarian propaganda.
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“If we receive official details or information, we will be able to deal with it. Until then, I consider this as propaganda to be treated with caution”said the head of Hungarian diplomacy.
He added that the last three years'have shown that the Ukraine war is partly a war of propaganda. “emphasizing that “It is clear that Kiev often uses antimaging propaganda.” writes Agerpres.
The Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) announced on Friday earlier that it was arrested in Transcarpatia, a region with a large Hungarian minority, two alleged members of a spy network coordinated by the Hungarian Military Intelligence.
According to SBU, ”The cell was collecting information on military security in the Transcarpathian region, looking for vulnerabilities in the terrestrial and aerial defense of the region and studying socio-political opinions “ of the local population.
One of the arrested persons is a former 40 -year -old Ukrainian military man, recruited by Hungarian secret services in 2021 and activated in September last year, says SBU.
Kiev and Budapest have tense relations due to the refusal of the Hungarian Conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orban to support Ukraine in the war with Russia and the situation of about 150,000 Hungarian ethnic groups, whose rights are violated, according to the Hungarian government, who also stated that the Ethnic Hungarians from Ukraine were in Ukraine. on the front.
In June 2022, Russia transferred to Hungary 11 prisoners of Ukrainian war of Hungarian ethnicity, this understanding of Budapest with Moscow causing Kiev irritation.
