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Ukraine has arrested two people who said that a Hungarian spy ring collection intelligence agencies participated in a possible military attack – for the first time, Kiev accused an EU’s neighbor conspired against its interests.
The Ukrainian State Security Service (SBU) said on Friday that it opened a spy net operated by Hungary’s military detectives, which has about 5,7 Hungarian speakers to collect sensitive information on its defense and population in the Western Zuckerpatia region.
The SBU said that a man and a woman – both military elders, along with Ukrainian nationality, were detained as part of the expedition, SBU said.
The SBU said the accused network had collected information on regional military defense and evaluated local sensitivity with a Hungarian military attack, SBU said.
The Financial Times could not verify the information independently.
The Hungarian government canceled the Ukrainian allegations and expelled two Ukrainian diplomats known as Spice.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Sejizzer said at a press conference in Budapest, “Anti -baseless anti -Hungarian propaganda is often used in Ukraine.”
He added to a Facebook video: “We will not tolerate this constant defamation [so] Today we have expelled two spies working under the diplomatic cover at the Ukrainian embassy in Budapest. “
Ethnic Hungarian rights Ukraine Budapest and Kiev, especially in their mother tongue, have been distant about school studies. Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Arban, who has opposed Ukraine’s EU military assistance since the full-fledged aggression of Russia in 2022 and maintained close ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin, accused Kiev’s “Hungarophobia” and threatened the country.
Arban often said that Ukraine was only a “buffer zone” in Russia and the rest of Europe and one of them Hungary Had to be ready for any scene after the war ended. However, some Hungarian analysts suspected that the Budapest went to the collection of intelligence information to set up a field to attack the military.
Putin’s close statistics, such as Ukrainian Oligark Victor Medwedechuk, who accused of launching Russian influence in Europe, recently extended the idea of a free participation in neighboring countries when the Ukraine war ended. In February, Medwedechuk told the Russian toss that these national “historic tihassic claims” were “just” because some Ukrainian territory was artificially included in modern Ukraine “.
Last year, MI Hajanak, a small Hungary -distant party, said last year that Jakarpattia would “claim” in the wake of the war in Ukraine. Party leader Lasalli Torokjkai has said that he will promote a referendum in Jakarpattia to become a Hungarian “Protector”.
The SBU said the person in Ukraine’s spy operation was a “Hungarian military detective career officer”.
It is said[ing] Social -political views of local residents. “
Specifically, the accused agents compiled information about what could happen “if the Hungarian troops entered the region”.
The person who was arrested was a 40 -year -old military elder in Western Ukrainian city of Berhuov, who said SBU was appointed as a sleeper agent by Hungary and was placed in “Standby Mode” in 2021.
Later in September 2021, his Hungarian handler “activated” him, SBU reported.
According to the SBU, the alleged agents were given the responsibility of collecting answers to the questions by their handler, such as: What will the Jakarpattia military and civilians do when the Hungarian troops enter the region? Which weapons and military equipment are available in the black market there? How is the Hungarian population moving or out of the region? Which military unit is based on the area? How many transportation and war vehicles are there? How many law enforcement agencies operate in this region? How well they decorated?
An agent has been shown to scout the location of the Ukrainian military unit and an S -300 air defense system.
The SBU reported that the agent traveled to Hungary to report to his supervisor, crossing the border with a document showing that he was taking his ailing father to a foreign hospital for treatment. These national documents are necessary for men who are left in Ukraine under the Marshall Act.
According to the SBU, the agent and supervisor paid the exchange of information for cash money and paying new employers to extend the network of information technologies. The company said the man had tried to appoint at least two.
“By forming an agent network, foreign intelligence agencies hoped to extend the data collection range from frontline and frontline zones,” said the SBU.
At the second meeting between the informant and its Hungarian handler in March, the Ukrainian person was given a call “with special software for secret communication”, SBU reported.
This phone is to share this person securely sharing information about SBU and military officers in the region, as well as to help the information related to the number of Ukrainian troops from the area killed in the front line.
The SBU said the detained woman also served in the armed forces and resigned from her unit this year. His work was accused of notifying the Hungarian intelligence services in the western Ukrainian aircraft and helicopters, as well as detailed information about his former military unit.
The SBU reported that it had seized several phones and other evidence from both suspects. In a video published online by SBU, the man was splashing his face and was seen with handcuffs. The Ukrainian protection service shared what was said that the alleged agent and their handler had a wired phone conversation.
Two suspects are being sentenced to life imprisonment on high sedition and convicted of personal property if they are convicted in court.
The SBU’s statement “seems to be very well enrolled to block Ukrainians”, an analyst who has refused to name the name. “The Hungarians have aimed for it for years: Ukraine has been separated as part of a Russian strategy” and will be rewarded for their assistance in regional profit.
