Hungary did not supply military hardware to Ukraine, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Yevhen Perebyinis said on Aug. 19.
“Reports about Hungary supplying military hardware to Ukraine are untrue,” he said at a briefing on Aug. 19.
He said the train carrying Hungarian military hardware did not cross the Ukrainian border but was part of the earlier troop-transportation plan because of current reforms in the Hungarian defense industry. This was formally announced by the Hungarian Foreign Ministry on its webpage, the spokesman said.
It was reported that on Aug. 15 the Russian Foreign Ministry claimed that according to the Hungarian online news outlet Hidfo.Net, the Hungarian defense ministry was supplying armored vehicles, in particular, T-72 tanks, to Ukraine through an “authorized agency”.
“Arms supplies to Kyiv from Hungary are a direct breach of Budapest’s legal obligations in the area of conventional-arms exports,” the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Information and Press Department said in a commentary.
