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Ukraine says it has busted Hungarian spy ring collecting military data (www.theguardian.com)

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Two Ukrainians arrested as authorities claim operation had one eye on a possible future military incursion

Ukrainian authorities claim to have busted a Hungarian spy ring operating on its territory, alleging that Budapest was collecting sensitive military data with one eye on a possible future incursion into the west of the country.

Hungary’s foreign minister dismissed the accusations as “propaganda” and announced the expulsion of two Ukrainians described as “spies working under diplomatic cover” at the Ukrainian embassy in Budapest.

The allegations will further test already fraught relations between the two neighbouring countries. While Hungary is a member of Nato and the EU, its prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has been an outlier among European leaders, strongly critical of Kyiv and neutral towards Russia.

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[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 25 points 3 days ago

I'll be honest, I expected better from the Guardian.

I could write a small novel about important and relevant facts being omitted or pussyfooted around, but the main points are:

Just a day before this story, there was a leak in the Hungarian military where a speech of the Minister of Defense was taped in 2023 that the then-recent purge - forced retirement - of military leaders was so that the military could be transformed from a "peace mentality" to a "war mentality" and that "we have to go Phase 0 of the path to war".
The spies were found to be collecting intelligence on specific questions, notably how "a Hungarian peacekeeping force occupying the Transcarpathia region would be received by the local civilian populace, the local law enforcement and the local military".
The Orbán government is not "neutral" with respect to Russia. They have been actively funding Russia from Hungarian taxpayer money by buying Russian gas over world market prices. They have said that the 1956 revolution in Hungary was "unwise", implying there is no point in trying to defend against a Russian invasion. The Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs - guy with the big forehead enthusiastically called the Cockatiel in Hungary - received the Friendship medal, the highest non-military commendation in Russia just four years ago.
The Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs claimed there was a plan together with Orbán, Putin and Kaczyński that would have had Hungarian and Polish peacekeepers occupy Western Ukraine after Russia claims the Eastern half.

I know the Guardian is trying to be non-sensationalist, but in the past few days, a literal decade happened in Hungarian politics.