During the war, Ukraine has remained in a state of constant conflict with Hungary.
But since the Kiev regime bombed the Druzhba pipeline – that was vital for their energy security of the neighboring country – the bilateral relations took a turn for the worse, and seem to have reached the point of no return.
Not content of calling Viktor Orbán and his conservative, anti-Globalist government ‘Putin’s lackeys’ and some such slanders, Kiev’s leader Volodymyr Zelensky has forwarded the seemingly absurd thesis that Hungarian drones would have invaded his country’s airspace.
And the pushback from the Hungarians has been brutal.
Reuters reported:
“Reconnaissance drones that violated Ukraine’s airspace could have flown from Hungary to check the industrial potential of western border areas, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday, 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.”
President @ZelenskyyUa is losing his mind to his anti-Hungarian obsession. He’s now starting to see things that aren’t there. https://t.co/r5BYDsDkiU
— Péter Szijjártó (@FM_Szijjarto) September 26, 2025
“Hungary is a member of the European Union and NATO, two organizations that are allied with Kyiv in Russia’s war in Ukraine, but relations between Kyiv and Budapest have often been fraught.
[…] Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been skeptical about Western military aid for Ukraine and has maintained more cordial relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin than other NATO and EU member states.”
Prime Minister Orbán:
Hungary is a member of NATO and the EU. Ukraine would have collapsed long ago without the support of these two organisations. President @ZelenskyyUa , with all due respect, stop harassing us!
— Orbán Viktor (@PM_ViktorOrban) September 27, 2025
NATO drones***
Hungary is a NATO member state…If Ukraine shoots down Hungarian drones, could Hungary invoke Article 5?
I would just to f*ck with them… pic.twitter.com/KZyGZoXuxV
— Anna (@provemewrong411) September 26, 2025
Hungarian Minister of Defense:
President @ZelenskyyUA’s claim that a Hungarian military drone entered Ukraine is false. The HDF did not carry out any such mission, nor did it receive any instruction or notice. This attempt at disinformation has failed — stays out of the war and remains committed to peace.
— Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky (@SzBobrovniczky) September 27, 2025
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