Overview

• Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said the entry bans target three high-ranking officers of the Hungarian armed forces in response to what he called baseless restrictions on Ukrainian personnel.
• President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces recorded airspace violations by reconnaissance drones likely from Hungary and ordered verification and urgent reporting on each incident.
• Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó rejected the drone claim, posting that Zelenskyy is “starting to see things that aren’t there.”
• Hungary recently barred Unmanned Systems Forces commander Robert Brovdi over attacks on the Druzhba oil pipeline, and in July it banned three Ukrainian military personnel over a death case in Zakarpattia.
• Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry has accused Budapest of politicizing individual mobilization and legal cases, as frictions also reflect disputes over Ukraine’s EU bid and Hungary’s reliance on Russian energy.