Vitaly Sayenko10:17, 27.02.26
In February 2022, Hungarian troops were deployed near the Ukrainian border.
Pro-Russian Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban could have received promises from Moscow that he would receive Transcarpathia in exchange for Russia’s support in the war against Ukraine. Yevhen Dyky, a veteran of the Russian-Ukrainian war and former company commander of the Aidar battalion, said this on Radio NV .
In particular, he answered whether Ukraine should expect armed provocations on the border from Hungary in light of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s statement about deploying the military to protect their energy infrastructure.
“I will remind you that the Hungarian army once deployed on our border. It was on February 24, 2022. They were standing right along the border with prepared pontoon bridges to cross the Tisza. And all these stories by Orban that they were then deploying offensive units with pontoon bridges to prepare to receive a large flow of refugees – this is not even funny, it does not withstand any criticism. There was an army there, clearly prepared for an offensive,” Dyky emphasized.
In his opinion, “Orban was clearly going to occupy our Transcarpathia at that time.” “And then we can only assume that, most likely, the fall of Kyiv was supposed to be the signal for this,” Dykyi said. Read also:
“We can only assume this, we cannot know for sure, but there are many signs that indicate that the Kremlin promised him Transcarpathia in exchange for Russia’s support,” Dykyi emphasized.
At the same time, according to him, the situation is slightly different now, because Hungarian troops are currently deployed not near the Ukrainian border, but inside the country around Hungarian energy facilities.
The expert added that Orban has been holding power for a very long time, but he is holding this power using hybrid methods in the context of elections.
“And he partially falsifies them every time, but mostly he still really wins the elections by manipulating public opinion, by monopolizing the media, and so on. That is, he is a kind of non-dictator, a clearly authoritarian leader, but whose power is still not absolute. And this spring, this power will probably be challenged the most serious time in the last ten, if not fifteen years. Orban now has a very good chance of losing this power,” Dykyi noted.
Therefore, according to the expert, the story of deploying troops around energy facilities is most likely an election move to manipulate the opinion of citizens in order to create an “external enemy” out of Ukraine.
“And considering that he really has a great chance of losing these spring elections, it’s best for us not to take any drastic steps now… Hungarians, please, watch for yourself how your dictator is clearly inventing a war that doesn’t exist. And think for yourself who can bring war to your country,” Dyky believes.
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Orban was informed about the day of the invasion, and his Army was standing ready to act.
And russian opposition leader Feygin has been saying this since July 2022. Add to that, if Orban got the Zakharpattia region then Slovakia would no longer border Ukraine. This might explain Fico’s attitude toward Ukraine.
I said this four years ago. It was almost obvious after the ugly anti-Ukrainian toad remained hostile even after the brutal all-out war on innocent Ukraine.
When putler attacked Georgia in Aug 2008 :
“Fidesz urged the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of Russian troops from the country.
The head of Fidesz’s foreign affairs cabinet said that in his letter, Viktor Orbán also mentioned that Georgia and Ukraine should be admitted to NATO as soon as possible.”
Orban switched to being pro-putler on winning power. He nationalized Hungarian energy, put it into the hands of his cronies and made Hungary a putler vassal : all under the eyes of the EU, which did nothing.
Fico is simply repeating the OrbanaZi business model.
Also in 2008 :
“WARSAW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed to Poland’s then leader that they divide Ukraine between themselves as far back as 2008, Poland’s parliamentary speaker Radoslaw Sikorski said in an interview published by the U.S. Politico website.
According to Sikorski, who until September served as Poland’s Foreign Minister, Putin made the proposal during Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s visit to Moscow in 2008.
“He wanted us to become participants in this partition of Ukraine … This was one of the first things that Putin said to my prime minister, Donald Tusk, when he visited Moscow.”
https://www.firstpost.com/world/putin-offered-to-divide-ukraine-with-poland-polish-ex-minister-1766221.html
All the warning signs were there in 2008. If Dubya or later Obama had forced putler out of the 20% of Georgia he had thieved, that might have been an end to it.
But Europe was even more pro-ruZZia then than now : the Franco-German EU axis was blatantly pro-putler. Merkel and Sarkozy were both ruZZian agents.
The 2008 invasion was a disaster for Georgia, a disaster for Europe and a disaster for US foreign policy. Bush 1 and Bush 2 both placed the liberation of Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq as far more deserving of U.S. attention than democratic Georgia. Obama was indifferent to both Georgia and Ukraine; he turns out to be a borderline tankie in fact.
Biden was made of sterner stuff, but then we had the catastrophe of the second coming of Krasnov. He told his supporters that Ukraine would get nothing. He abused and sneered at Zel even prior to his election and then delivered what he promised.
The U.S. electorate voted for an ally of a child murderer.
Unfortunately the Oval Office ambush was only a taste of what was to come.