Hungary said on Friday it had â detained seven Ukrainians carrying around $82 million in cash and gold on suspicion of money laundering, as Kyiv âaccused Budapest of taking bank employees hostage amid a dispute over oil shipments. The Hungarian Tax Authorityâs decision to have counter-terrorism forces swoop on two Ukrainian armored vehicles transporting cash to Ukraine marks a dramatic escalation of tensions that have already resulted in Budapest blocking tens of billions of euros in European Union aid for Kyiv. âThe National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV) is pursuing criminal proceedings on suspicion of money laundering,â the authority said in a â statement. âOn March 5, 2026, it detained seven Ukrainian citizens, including a former Ukrainian intelligence service general, and two armored cash-in-transit vehicles, which were transporting a total âof $40 million, 35 million euros and nine kilograms of gold from Austria to Ukraine.â The tax authority said it was working together with counter-terrorism forces. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said Kyiv must provide answers regarding cash transits across Hungary. Government spokesperson Zoltan Kovacs â
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Franceâs Marine Le Pen and the Netherlandsâ Geert Wilders among speakers praising prime minister at Budapest event Marine Le Pen has called Viktor Orbán âan exceptional leaderâ and Geert Wilders hailed âa lion on a continent led…
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Franceâs Marine Le Pen and the Netherlandsâ Geert Wilders among speakers praising prime minister at Budapest event Marine Le Pen has called Viktor Orbán âan exceptional leaderâ and Geert Wilders hailed âa…
Read original at The Guardian →Two police officers have been injured in an explosion that authorities say was a "terrorist act" in the town of Bucha near the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. An explosion occurred on a residential street in the early hours of…
Read original at BBC →European Union leaders have accused Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of disloyalty and blackmail after he blocked a €90bn (£77bn) loan for Ukraine. "No oil = no money," Orbán said in a post on X after Thursday's…
Read original at BBC →Kyiv sources say they think injection contained relaxant meant to make people more talkative in interrogations Hungarian security operatives administered a âforced injectionâ to one of the Ukrainians detained…
Read original at The Guardian →This live blog is now closed, you can read more on this story here The European Councilâs conclusions on Ukraine from todayâs meeting have just been published and they are once again signed by just 25 countries.…
Read original at The Guardian →Ukraine does not âwant to lose the Americansâ while they are âwithout question, currently more focused on the Middle East,â President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. There is growing apprehension in Kyiv that the…
Read original at CNN →Hungary said on Friday it had â detained seven Ukrainians carrying around $82 million in cash and gold on suspicion of money laundering, as Kyiv âaccused Budapest of taking bank employees hostage amid a dispute over…
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Franceâs Marine Le Pen and the Netherlandsâ Geert Wilders among speakers praising prime minister at Budapest event Marine Le Pen has called Viktor Orbán âan exceptional leaderâ and Geert Wilders hailed âa lion on a continent led…
View source →Two police officers have been injured in an explosion that authorities say was a "terrorist act" in the town of Bucha near the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. An explosion occurred on a residential street in the early hours of Monday. When police…
View source →European Union leaders have accused Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of disloyalty and blackmail after he blocked a €90bn (£77bn) loan for Ukraine. "No oil = no money," Orbán said in a post on X after Thursday's summit in Brussels…
View source →Kyiv sources say they think injection contained relaxant meant to make people more talkative in interrogations Hungarian security operatives administered a âforced injectionâ to one of the Ukrainians detained earlier this month during…
View source →This live blog is now closed, you can read more on this story here The European Councilâs conclusions on Ukraine from todayâs meeting have just been published and they are once again signed by just 25 countries. This means that there…
View source →Ukraine does not âwant to lose the Americansâ while they are âwithout question, currently more focused on the Middle East,â President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. There is growing apprehension in Kyiv that the conflict in the…
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