Ukraine accuses duo of spying for Hungary

Hungary, whose authorities maintains enactment of Russian narratives implicit warfare successful Ukraine, is accused of seeking defence data.

Ukraine has detained 2 radical who it accuses of spying for Hungarian subject intelligence.

The SBU information work claimed successful a connection connected Friday that the erstwhile members of the Ukrainian subject were recruited by Hungary to behaviour “espionage activities to the detriment of our state”. Relations betwixt Kyiv and Budapest person agelong been strained, but the antipathy has grown amid Russia’s penetration of Ukraine.

The Ukrainian quality bureau said that the brace had been recruited by a handler successful Hungarian subject quality to stitchery accusation astir defence systems successful the country’s west, big to a important Hungarian diaspora.

There was nary contiguous effect from the Hungarian government.

The SBU said the 2 suspects, a 40-year-old antheral and a woman, had been placed successful custody and fixed announcement that they were nether suspicion of committing treason. They some present look up to beingness successful prison, it added.

The brace was allegedly fixed currency and peculiar instrumentality for concealed connection and tasked with passing connected details astir aerial defence batteries and different subject capabilities successful the occidental Zakarpattia portion bordering Hungary.

The SBU alleged the antheral had tried to enlistee astatine slightest 2 radical arsenic informants.

It added that this was the archetypal clip successful the past of Ukraine that a Hungarian spy web had been recovered to beryllium moving against Kyiv’s interests.

Flags of Ukraine, Hungary and the European Union are seen successful the municipality of Berehove, successful Zakarpattia region, which has a sizeable number of taste Hungarians [File: Reuters]

Throughout the Ukraine war, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has delayed Western subject assistance to Kyiv and maintained lukewarm relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, astatine likelihood with his European Union peers.

Orban has utilized staunch nationalism to physique his governmental basal astatine home, successful peculiar stressing grievances implicit the territories mislaid to neighbouring states – including Ukraine – nether the Versailles Treaty that ended World War I.

Budapest has berated Kyiv for years, claiming discriminatory actions against the  150,000 oregon truthful taste Hungarians, astir of whom unrecorded successful the Zakarpattia region.

The SBU noted that the suspected agents had besides been tasked with studying “the socio-political views of section residents, successful particular, scenarios of their behaviour if Hungarian troops entered the region”.

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