The death of a Ukrainian recruiter causes a line with Hungary

The death of a 45-year-old ethnic Hungarian in Ukraine, a few weeks after it was drafted into the Ukrainian army, caused an angry series between the Hungarian government and the authorities in Kiev.

Jossef Sebestin, a double citizen of Ukraine-Hungary, was beaten by iron bars after he was forcibly called on June 14, his brother and sister Hungarian media reported.

Sebestin, from Berhov in the west of Ukraine, died there at a psychiatric hospital on July 8.

The military was refused the military, but his case was covered by a compulsory conscription in Ukraine when the army seeks to protect the advanced lines from Russia in great losses.

“They took me to the woods with many other people and started knocking me there,” Sebestin quoted the Hungary news site, as his brother and sister said.

“The beatings were mostly to the head and body. They said that if I did not sign anything, they would take me to” zero “(line front). That’s so painful, I couldn’t move.”

On July 10, the Ukrainian Sandar Ambassador Figira was summoned to the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Budapest in this case.

Prime Minister Victor Orban, a bitter critic of the Ukrainian government and military efforts, posted on Facebook: “Hungarian citizens were beaten to death in Ukraine. A few kilometers from the Hungarian border. The country where it may happen cannot be a member of the EU.”

Later, on the same day, the Ukrainian army published a complete denial.

“According to the final report of the hospital, there were no physical injuries during a medical examination,” the statement said.

“We firmly dismiss any accusations of forced labor, inhuman treatment or human rights violations, be territorial military centers or other military officials.”

The army continues to say that it will be open to “transparent investigation in accordance with Ukrainian legislation.”

The incident became the last point of Flash in the war between the Orban government in Budapest and the administration of Vladimir Zelensky in Kiev.

In May, The spy string summoned arrests in both countries and exile diplomats for tat-tat.

At the end of June, the Hungarian government published the results of the latest “national consultation”, in which it presented eight reasons not to allow Ukraine to the EU and invited citizens to vote “no”.

More than two million did it, according to the results that were not checked independently.

Decisions of violence during a forced call in Ukraine are not new. Ukrainian men are entitled to the army between the ages of 25 and 60, and most men from 18 are forbidden to leave the country.

“I continue to hear from the relatives of those who are taken by the military that they receive their clothes covered with blood,” the Hungarian woman said in the BBC transcortation provided anonymity.

“The situation has been increasing since the beginning of the war, but it has become particularly bad over the past two months.”

Often, she continued medical certificates that provide release from the project, ignored by soldiers – and owners are unceremoniously into vehicles and take away. Thousands of dollars, “crazy sums”, were in demand for what remained in the world.

There are also accusations that the critics of the government, including journalists, are intentionally aimed at the conscription.

Oleh Dib, 58, editor of Zakarpattya Online, is now going on a hunger strike in military detention. He claims he was accepted because his articles studying the construction of wind turbines in the Carpathian mountains upset the authorities.

Ukrainians can start cases of unjust or cruel call to the office of the Ukrainian Ombudsman on Human Rights, DMYTRO LUBYNETS.

He recently said his office received 3,500 complaints about human rights abuses in 2024, and so far more than 2000 complaints.

He said the criminal cases were initiated against more than 50 recruits.

The right to a conscientious objection was abolished in Ukraine when martial law was announced in February 2022 – Russia began a full -scale invasion per month.

At the request of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe I have issued an opinion on alternative service in Ukraine In March 2025.

“The states carry positive commitments to create an alternative service system to be separated from the military system, should not be punitive and remain within reason,” the statement reads.