The Hungarian government says they did not know about the release of Ukrainian captives from Russia.
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So they said that “perhaps it was a private action.”
The Hungarian service of Radio Liberty spoke to four sources. Among them are governmental, diplomatic and independent persons.
All four sources said the dismissal took place under the exclusive supervision of Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Shemien and his personal contacts with the Russian Orthodox Church.
According to them, neither the foreign minister nor the head of the prime minister’s office knew about the operation. How involved Prime Minister Viktor Orban is also a “big question”.
There is “significant outrage” in the government about the situation, one of the interlocutors said.
As subdued as Hungarian-Ukrainian relations may be, on such a sensitive issue, there would probably have been some form of exchange of information between Budapest and Kiev if it had not been a private action.
However, the Hungarian government simply chose a “strategy of silence”, although “it became obvious to everyone that the Hungarian government could be manipulated from Russia at the level of a deputy prime minister.”
None of the sources had information about where eleven Ukrainian prisoners of war are now.
The Vice Prime Minister of Hungary said last week that Russia transferred a group of Ukrainian prisoners of war from Transcarpathia to Hungary on June 8 at its request. He called it a gesture of the ROC. Ukrainian intelligence said that they had no information that the transfer of prisoners actually took place.
All this is a gesture of the Russian Orthodox Church towards Hungary, people owe this to their freedom,” Zsolt Semjen told atv. hu, but did not provide details.
Source: Racurs
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