{"id":87200,"date":"2025-05-09T11:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T11:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/87200\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T11:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T11:12:09","slug":"ukraine-says-it-busted-hungarian-spy-network-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/87200\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine says it busted Hungarian spy network \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAgents were also searching for weak spots in land and air defense of the region, and were also studying the political views of the local population. In particular: How they would behave if a peacekeeping force, Hungarian troops in particular, entered the region,\u201d Dehtiarenko added.<\/p>\n<p>As evidence, the SBU showed a video in which two Ukrainian nationals from Zakarpattia, a man and a woman \u2014 both previously of the Ukrainian army \u2014 admit they were working for Hungarian military intelligence, collecting information for money.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe results of the investigation showed their curator was a staff officer of the Hungarian military intelligence. SBU already identified him,\u201d Dehtiarenko said.<\/p>\n<p>Top officials in Budapest scoffed at the allegations from Kyiv. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis should be considered Ukrainian propaganda that should be treated with caution. Once we receive any official information, we can deal with it,\u201d Hungary\u2019s Foreign Minister P\u00e9ter Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atv.hu\/kulfold\/20250509\/szijjarto-peter-ukrajna-magyar-kem\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.atv.hu\/kulfold\/20250509\/szijjarto-peter-ukrajna-magyar-kem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told local media outlet ATV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If found guilty, both suspects face life in prison for committing state treason during wartime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAgents were also searching for weak spots in land and air defense of the region, and were also&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2002,2000,299,41727,2190,657,19655,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-87200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-espionage","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-hungarian-politics","12":"tag-hungary","13":"tag-ukraine","14":"tag-ukrainian-politics","15":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114477579861573992","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}