Hungarian reconnaissance drones entered Ukraine, the Kyiv government stated on 26th Sept. “The commander in chief informed us about recent drone incidents along the Ukrainian-Hungarian border. Ukrainian troops registered incursions of our airspace by reconnaissance drones, presumably Hungarian ones,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated in a release following a government session.
Preliminary estimates indicate they could have been collecting intel on the industrial capabilities of Ukraine’s border regions. I ordered all available data to be checked and immediate reports to be submitted on every documented incident,” Zelenskyy said, without further details.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó reacted in a post on X: “President Zelenskyy is losing his mind to his anti-Hungarian fixation. He’s now beginning to see things which do not exist.”
Relations between Ukraine and Hungary have worsened in recent months because Budapest continues to veto Ukraine’s accession to the EU. Last month, the forces of Kyiv began shelling the Druzhba oil pipeline, supplying Budapest with Russian fuel.
Hungary retaliated by banning Robert Brovdi — one of the main commanders of Ukraine — from Hungary. Ukraine retaliated by imposing a ban on three senior Hungarian military generals entering Ukraine.
“Our mirror reaction to Hungary’s previous unfounded entry ban on our military officials. Hungary’s every gesture of disrespect will have a proper response, particularly disrespect of our military,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said Friday.
Szijjarto replied that Ukraine has “conducted an anti-Hungarian policy for ten years.
