According to Ukraine, she has uncovered a espionage network that is operated by the Hungarian state to obtain information about his defense near her common border.
The Ukraine security service said that he had arrested two suspected Hungarian spies that he had accused of collecting secret services.
“For the first time in Ukrainian history, the security service has discovered a Hungarian military secret service network that carried out spy activities to the detriment of our state,” said the SBU.
The Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said that the allegations are “treated as propaganda to a point in time as we receive details or official information”.
On the Hungarian ATV television station, he said that “anti-Hungarian propaganda is often employed in Ukraine … which often turns out to be no basis”.
He did not reject the allegations directly, but said that there had been no official communication from Kyiv so far.
Hungary is a member of the European Union and NATO – both permanent allies in Ukraine – but President Viktor Orban has repeatedly occurred with Russia since his invasion of Ukraine.
The alleged Spy network was set up by Hungary’s military intelligence to collect data about the location and the number of Air Defense Systems as well as law enforcement officers and their vehicles in the Western Zakarpattia region, said the SBU.
Zakarpattia is the western region of Ukraine, which divides a 137 km long border with Hungary.
The spies had also collected information about the public feeling of residents to predict their reaction in the event of a Hungarian idea, according to the SBU.
The SBU gave no indication that the alleged conspiracy of Russia benefited.
The woman and the man who was detained – referred to by the SBU as “traitor” – – – were former members of the Ukrainian military and were allegedly monitored by a Hungarian intelligence officer.
The SBU said that the male suspect had crossed the border to Hungary to report to its controller, to receive money and a communication device in return. The SBU did not work on how the alleged network was uncovered.
The alleged spies were taken into custody in their houses, reported the Ukrainian news agency Interfax and Telefone and other evidence from which they were confiscated during a search.
The prisoners are suspected of betrayal and confronted with a lifelong prison sentence.
Relations between Hungary and Ukraine have been tense since Russia’s full invasion began more than three years ago.
Orban has tried to block EU aid packages In contrast, sanctions against Russian oil and gas in Ukraine and has expressed its opposition to Ukraine to the EU.
Hungary has been a member of NATO since 1999, the Transatlantic Defense Alliance. Since Orban’s advancement to power as an authoritarian leader, his policy has often contradicted western positions.
Orban’s government belongs to a few in Europe who have Keep close relationships with Russia maintained after the invasion.
These arrests and the alleged espionage network were insulated.
The short border of Ukraine to Hungary is far from the front, and this has little influence on the ongoing battles in the southeast and northeast of the country, where Russia controls around 20% of the Ukrainian territory.
But Russia, which uses rockets and drones to destroy all parts of Ukraine at intermittent intervals, would be interested in knowing the locations of all military assets.
Former British Defense Minister Sir Ben Wallace announced the current program of BBC Radio 4 that this was not the first time that Ukraine Hungary subversively accused on its territory.
But he added that the sensitive military nature of the alleged goals made this time much more serious.
Wallace asked the question of who would be the ultimate recipient of this intelligence, which was allegedly collected by the borders of Ukraine.
“What Putin fears most is NATO’s values,” he said. “And if these values ​​are threatened or undermined, within NATO there must be a serious discussion about members who behave in this way.”
The SBU announced the same day, on which Robert Fico, the Prime Minister of another NATO -Nation, Slovakia, grows into Vladimir Putin’s Victory parade in Moscow in order to commemorate the defeat of the USSR against Nazi Germany in World War II.
Since the rest of NATO tries to maintain the unit in view of the continuing invasion of Russia, this latest news will not be welcome.
According to the last official census, which was carried out in 2001, around 150,000 Hungary live in the Ukrainian region of Zakarpattia.
In the past, Ukraine and Hungary have coordinated the rights of this community to use their mother tongue and orban’s efforts to promote the Hungarian identity there.
Wallace said when he was a defense minister, another conspiracy was discovered by Ukraine, in which “Hungary distributed the ethnic Hungarians in this bag of land”, which caused Kyiv to eliminate a number of diplomats.