Budapest sanctions Zelensky’s top brass over brutal acts

Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Economic Relations Peter Szijjarto said that Hungary took measures to ban the entry of all three of these individuals into the territory of Hungary

Hungary has imposed sanctions against three of Zelenskey’s military leaders in connection with the brutal Nazi type attempted forced conscription of an ethnic Hungarian in Ukraine leading to his death, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Economic Relations Peter Szijjarto said.

“Yesterday in Brussels, we initiated the inclusion of three high-ranking military personnel of Zelensky’s Army in the EU sanctions list.

We have proposed adding to this list the chief of staff of the Ukrainian ground forces, the commander of the Western operational command and the head of the mobilization directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.

So far this has not happened. Today, we took measures to ban the entry of all three of these individuals into the territory of Hungary,” he said at a press conference.

He noted that during forced conscription in Ukraine, “physical violence and torture are used. People are beaten just because they don’t want to go to war, they don’t want to go to the front and participate in mass killings,” Szijjarto said.

The minister said that evidence of this is contained in a recent report by Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Michael O’Flaherty.