Russian President Vladimir Putin approved the release of two Hungarian prisoners of war from Transcarpathia during talks with Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, in Moscow on Wednesday. During a phone call on Tuesday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán asked Vladimir Putin to release Hungarian citizens held as prisoners by Russia. “During our telephone […] The post Foreign Minister Brings Ethnic Hungarian Prisoners of War Home from Moscow appeared first on Hungary Today.

Péter Magyar promised tangible development and renovation of bumpy roads to the people of Szabolcs, Hungary. He also mentioned that Hungarians from Transcarpathia told him the Hungarian government had abandoned them.

The Metropolitan Court in Hungary ruled that a regulation, which stopped providing accommodation support to Ukrainian refugees from areas not considered war zones by the government, does not violate EU directives, primarily affecting Transcarpathians.

A homeless man from Transcarpathia allegedly kicked another homeless man to death in Klauzál Square, Budapest, over 5,000 forints. The assailant and an acquaintance then went drinking, and the victim died due to lack of care.

Transcarpathia is expected to see the peak of crocus blooming next week, and regional tourism experts predict a surge of visitors over the following weekend.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated that Hungary did not stop electricity exports to Ukraine to protect Hungarians in Transcarpathia, despite previously considering it as a last resort.

Not only is the use of Ukrainian POWs, among them ethnic Hungarians in Russian propaganda messages a violation of the Geneva Convention on the protection of POWs, so is the way Hungarian public television has covered this.

The Hungarian Helsinki Committee is taking a government decree concerning primarily Transcarpathian refugees to the Curia, arguing that a Hungarian court twisted an EU directive to align with the Hungarian regulation.