Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó has summoned Ukraine's ambassador to the country after officers of the Ukrainian agency responsible for mobilization beat a Hungarian man from Transcarpathia who later died of his wounds, Hungarian Deputy Foreign Minister Levente Magyar said today, quoted by the national news agency MTI, BTA reported.
“It is outrageous and unacceptable to beat someone to death – regardless of whether he is Hungarian – "just because he didn't want to go to war and didn't want to participate in all these senseless killings," Magyar wrote on Facebook.
“Today we are immediately summoning the Ukrainian ambassador in Budapest after Ukrainian conscription officers beat a Hungarian man during a forced mobilization operation in Transcarpathia, who later died from his injuries,“ said the Hungarian deputy foreign minister.
“According to reports, Ukrainian officers beat the man with an iron bar before forcing him into a van and taking him to the conscription center,“ said Magyar. “The Hungarian family was told everything was fine, but the man later died from his injuries“.
“A Hungarian man was killed in Ukraine simply because he didn't want to go to war. We express our sincere condolences to his family and are with them at this time,“ he added.