It is a disgrace that Hungary helps Russia destroy facilities in Ukraine

In the Obozrevatel, Ukrainian historian and diplomat Olexander Levchenko comments on the Hungarian drones invading Ukrainian airspace:

"Hungarian drones are joining Russian ones. Budapest is spying for Moscow

2.10.2025 

... Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov once again stated that Moscow has no plans to attack EU and NATO countries. However, similar statements were made regarding Ukraine just days before the large-scale invasion in 2022 and the deployment of Russian troops to Ukrainian Crimea in February 2014. And the Russian Foreign Ministry's press secretary repeated the mantra that Ukrainians manipulated Russian drones during the attack on Poland. However, everyone knows that some of the drones flew in from Belarus, where taking control of them is even theoretically impossible. And what about Russian aircraft flying into Estonia, Latvia, and other Baltic states? Were they also manipulated from Kyiv, with Ukrainian crews deployed there? Apparently, everyone has noticed that unknown drones appear precisely on the territory of those NATO member states that support Ukraine the most.

There are no drones over pro-Russian Hungary and Slovakia. However, drones have flown into Ukrainian territory from Hungary. Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán and Foreign Minister Szijjártó claimed that this was simply Kyiv's anti-Hungarian hysteria. In other words, Budapest behaved in the same way as Moscow – denying everything. Meanwhile, when satellite images of Hungarian drones flying over Ukrainian strategic facilities were presented, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán brazenly declared: "Now the question is not whether two, three, or four Hungarian drones flew over or not. Let's assume they did fly over there, then what? Ukraine is not an independent, sovereign country. If the West decides tomorrow not to give a single forint, Ukraine could close up. So the drones are not what Ukraine should worry about." 

The answer to this position is simple. The West certainly doesn't provide aid to Ukraine in forints. Budapest has already tried dozens of times to block this aid to Ukraine, and has been partially successful. However, Ukraine largely keeps European airspace relatively calm by shooting down several hundred Russian drones daily, which could at some point fly directly to European capitals. It's not easy, which is why the West is helping.

Poland faced this reality when it shot down only four out of 20 Russian drones. It did so by deploying its entire air force, NATO aircraft based in the country, and its entire air defense system, including Patriot batteries, which Ukraine sorely lacks and which Kyiv uses exclusively against ballistic missiles, as drones and cruise missiles can also shoot down other air defense systems. Ukraine moved some production facilities closer to the border to make them harder for Russian missiles and drones to reach, which is why Orbán began helping Moscow locate these facilities for precision Russian strikes. This is simply disgraceful."