Reconnaissance drones that violated Ukraine’s airspace could have flown from Hungary to check the industrial potential of western border areas, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said yesterday, prompting a mocking rebuke from Budapest.
“President Zelenskiy is losing his mind to his anti-Hungarian obsession. He’s now starting to see things that aren’t there,” Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in a post on X.
Zelenskiy had been citing a preliminary military assessment of the drone activity. He did not say when these particular reconnaissance drones had been sighted over the border region.
“I instructed all available information to be verified and that urgent reports be made on each recorded incident,” Zelenskiy said on the Telegram messaging app after meeting Ukraine’s top military command.
Hungary is a member of the European Union and Nato, two organisations that are allied with Kyiv in Russia’s war in Ukraine, but relations between Kyiv and Budapest have often been fraught.
After Russia’s invasion in February 2022, many large Ukrainian industrial companies, especially from the east and south, relocated to western Ukraine and other safer regions of the country.
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