The government of Hungary has called on the European Union to put three Ukrainian military commanders responsible for the forced mobilization on its sanctions list, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said today in connection with the Hungarian-Ukrainian conscript who recently died after an alleged beating, the Hungarian news agency MTI reported, quoted by BTA.
Szijjártó said, quoted in a ministry statement, that the Council of Europe has confirmed that a “real manhunt” is taking place on the streets of Ukraine and that its human rights report states that those who avoid mobilization are “sometimes beaten and tortured“.
Speaking of videos released in recent months, the minister said it was appalling how Ukrainian conscription services treat people “and it was equally appalling how European political leaders turn a blind eye to this intolerable situation“.
He added that those responsible “must be found and punished“.
“We insist that the three officials in the Ukrainian Defense Ministry and the military command who are responsible for the forced mobilization be held accountable,“ Szijjártó said.