By: Giorgio Provinciali
Live from Ukraine ????????
Mukachevo Last Friday, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported thata drone violated Ukrainian airspace twice, entering from the Hungarian side at different altitudes.
To neutralize this potential threat the official statement read the Ukrainian Defense Forces conducted airspace patrols over the Uzhhorod district using a Chaklun-KM drone unit from the ZSU Unmanned Division.
Commenting on the images released by the Ukrainian General Staff to illustrate the events, President Zelenskystatedthatusing reconnaissance drones, Hungary may have been monitoring the potential of the Ukrainian defense industry.
The Hungarian authorities initiallydeniedthe reconstruction of this scenario, brazenly responding to these serious accusations via Foreign Minister Pter Szijjrt. According to him, Zelensky was imagining things and wasso mad, so obsessed with anti-Hungarian sentiment to even see ghosts.Then they downplayed the matter, implicitly admitting the possibility of border incursionsbutdismissingthem through the Hungarian prime minister himself assomething Ukraine shouldnt worry about.
Two, three, or four Hungarian drones, whether or not they crossed the border, are not a problem, since Ukraine is not a sovereign and independent country,Viktor Orbnsaidcontemptuously on the podcast Fighters Hour produced by his Fidesz party, adding thatIf we, that is, the West, decided not to give her even a single forint, Ukraine could shut down tomorrow.
To give readers an idea of the scale of the issue, we revisited those areas of the Transcarpathian region where,on May 9th, several Hungarian intelligence agents wereunmaskedby Ukrainian agents while collecting security information in that area, testing potential vulnerabilities in air and ground defenses, and gauging local sentiment about a possible Hungarian military invasion.
A little over three months later, on the night between August 20th and 21st, a violent Russian attackrockedthe city of Mukachevo (located near the Ukrainian border with Hungary and Slovakia), causing a fire so widespread that it affected an area of ??approximately 7,000 square meters.
Talking with residents of those areas, we indeed sensed a certain unease, heightened by suspicions of a traitorous neighbor aiding those strikes by passing valuable information to Moscow.We have never suffered a direct Russian attack since the beginning of the war. Then there was indeed a certain coming and going and we realized that every movement was being tracked by not-so-discreet observers reported a civilian present in Mukachevo at the time of the bombing of the local Flex plant (owned by the United States).
On that night, the Russians attacked Ukraine with 574 drones, four Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles, two Iskander-M ballistic missiles, 19 Kh-101 cruise missiles, and 14 Kalibr-type missiles, forcing the local emergency service to divert the wounded between the hospitals of Novak Zakarpattia and St. Martin. The launch of these types of missiles would have benefited frommonitoring Ukrainian industrial facilities near the borders with the two most staunchly pro-Russian countries in the European Union. Its no coincidence that on August 26 (the day Hungarian drones were detected invading Ukrainian airspace),Slovakia and Hungary were excluded from the high-level video conference on building a drone wall along the EUs eastern border.
In the past few hours, the Office of Prime Minister Gergely Gulys in Budapestannouncedthat it had banned 12 Ukrainian newspapers (Hromadske, TSN, Obozrevatel, Ukrainska Pravda, European Pravda, NV, LB.ua, Insider INFO, UA Online, Anons Zakarpattia, Zakarpattia online, and Ungvar.uz) in retaliation for Kyivs blocking of the Hungarian news channels Origo and Demokrata (known for their strong criticism of the EU, NATO, military support for Ukraine, and sanctions policy toward Moscow).
The perceived risk in Transcarpathia is that Hungary, exploiting its strategic ambiguity, is secretly supporting Moscow, creating a new source of instability within the EU.
匈牙利來的間諜無人機盤旋在烏克蘭西部
作者：Giorgio Provinciali
來自烏克蘭的現場報道
Mukachevo 上周五，烏克蘭武裝部隊總參謀部報告說，一架無人機從匈牙利一側以不同高度進入，兩次侵犯烏克蘭領空。
官方聲明中寫道：為了消除這種潛在威脅，烏克蘭國防部隊使用來自烏克蘭武裝部隊無人機師的 Chaklun-KM 無人機部隊在烏日霍羅德地區進行了空域巡邏。
（圖片由烏克蘭總參謀部發布）
澤連斯基總統在評論烏克蘭總參謀部發布的關於此事件的影像時表示，「匈牙利可能正在使用偵察無人機監測烏克蘭國防工業的潛力。」
匈牙利當局最初否認了烏方對這一情況的說法，並通過外交部長 Pter Szijjrt 厚顏無恥地回應了這些嚴厲的指控。據他說，澤連斯基是在想像事情，太瘋狂了，癡迷於反匈牙利情緒，甚至看不到鬼魂。然後他們淡化了這件事，隱含地承認了邊境入侵的可能性，但匈牙利總理本人認為這是「烏克蘭不應該擔心的事情」而將其一笑置之。
兩架、三架或四架匈牙利無人機，無論它們是否越過邊境，都不是問題，因為烏克蘭不是一個主權和獨立的國家，歐爾班維克多輕蔑地在他的青民盟黨製作的戰鬥者時刻播客中說道，並補充說，如果我們，也就是西方，決定不給她哪怕一個福林（匈牙利貨幣），烏克蘭明天就會關門大吉。
（圖：我在前往穆卡切沃時，途經烏克蘭外喀爾巴阡地區時拍攝了這張照片 所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
為了讓讀者了解這個問題的重要性，我們重新走訪了外喀爾巴阡地區，在5月9日，烏克蘭特工在那裏揭露了幾名匈牙利情報人員，他們在該地區收集安全信息，測試空中和地麵防禦的潛在漏洞，並評估當地民眾對於可能的匈牙利軍事入侵的看法。
（圖：8月20日至21日晚上，俄羅斯襲擊穆卡切沃的結果 圖片由烏克蘭真理報提供）
三個多月後，在8月20日和21日晚間，俄羅斯對穆卡切沃市（位於烏克蘭與匈牙利和斯洛伐克邊境附近）發動了猛烈襲擊，引發了一場蔓延範圍約7000平方米的大火。
與這些地區的居民交談後，我們確實感到了某種不安，由於人們懷疑一個叛徒鄰居通過向莫斯科傳遞有價值的訊息來協助這些襲擊而加劇了這種不安。自戰爭開始以來，我們從未遭受過俄羅斯的直接攻擊。然後確實有「某種來來去去」，我們意識到每一個動作都被不那麽謹慎的觀察者追蹤了當地「Flex」工廠（美國擁有）爆炸時，一名平民在穆卡切沃報告說。
那天晚上，俄羅斯人用574架無人機，四枚匕首空射彈道導彈，兩枚伊斯坎德爾-M彈道導彈，19枚Kh-101巡航導彈和14枚口徑型導彈襲擊了烏克蘭，迫使當地緊急服務部門將傷員轉移到Novak Zakarpattia和St. Martin醫院。發射這些類型的導彈得益於在烏克蘭與歐盟中兩個最堅定的親俄國家邊境處監視烏克蘭的工業設施。8月26日（匈牙利無人機被發現入侵烏克蘭領空的那一天），斯洛伐克和匈牙利被排除在關於沿歐盟東部邊界建立「無人機牆」的高級別視頻會議之外，這並非巧合。
（圖：我們在頓巴斯期間拍攝的在我們頭頂的一架俄羅斯無人機，烏克蘭 版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
在過去的幾個小時裏，匈牙利總理府在布達佩斯宣布禁止12家烏克蘭報紙（Hromadske, TSN, Obozrevatel, Ukrainska Pravda, European Pravda, NV, LB.ua, Insider INFO, UA Online, Anons Zakarpattia, Zakarpattia online 和 Ungvar.uz)，以報複基輔封鎖匈牙利新聞頻道Origo和Demokrata（以強烈批評歐盟、北約、對烏克蘭的軍事支持以及對莫斯科的製裁政策而聞名）。
在外喀爾巴阡地區感受到的風險是，匈牙利正在利用其戰略模糊性，秘密支持莫斯科，從而在歐盟內部製造新的不穩定因素。
（圖：前往烏克蘭西部邊境版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
