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Harsányi László's avatar

Thank you for the update!

Re Ukrainian POW Hungary: Some background. Orban plays the peace dove at home and everywhere else (even covered the country with roadside posters, press, tv and social media ads claimin that his opposition is "warmonger"). It hurts his PR badly that the 68th "Carpathian Dragons" Independent TD Battalion of the 101st Independent TD Brigade has a lot of Hungarian soldiers (from the Beregovo-Munkacevo-Uzhgorod region) among them Ferenc "Fegyir" Sandor professor. He get some publicity in last April, when he kept their lectures from the trenches via zoom amd then later on 23rd October when the unit posed with the flag of the 1956 revolution and the Ukrainian colors together. That inspired a few guys to contact them to help them. Since then seven shipment of drones, thermal cameras, ballistic vests, warm clothings, etc. and of course Hungarian foods were sent in about 270k Euro value. They send lists what their unit needs (weapons excluded), and the Kárpátaljai Sárkányellátó (Zakarpathskye Dragonsupplier) buys and ship to them.

Now this gets a pretty widespread coverage in Hungary and abroad. This undermines both of his "Protector of the Hungarians" image and his best help is to bow to the russians BS. THAT's why he tried to stage a "saving POWs" show with the help of his great FSB friend Kyrill patriarch. He needed something to show that "I'm the saviour of the poor Hungarian soldiers who were forced to fight". That there were not a single person in the government who could tell, that hey, there are legal rules about it, it's not a deal in the back room of a carpet trader in the Cashbah - well, that's the level of our government now.

Addendum: The Ukrainian ambassador in Budapest was called back about half a year ago. The Ukrainians found a new person to the post - Ferenc "Fegyir" Sandor. Somehow our completely independent head of state (who plays the "good cop" in the international relations) has not been able to find the time to sign his agrement since April. I wonder if she does it ever.

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"the 128th is home-based in Melitupol" - I think it was a misunderstanding somewere in Ukrainian press or blogs, because 128th home base is Mukacheve, Zakarpattia (that's why they are Mountain Assault and have an edelweiss with Carpatian hatchets on their emblem). Melitopol had to be the operational base at least for one of their battalions, not the Brigade's home base.

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