{"id":1369503,"date":"2026-03-14T10:29:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T08:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/artificial-tension-before-the-elections-who-benefits-from-hungarys-conflict-with-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T10:29:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T08:29:49","slug":"artificial-tension-before-the-elections-who-benefits-from-hungarys-conflict-with-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/artificial-tension-before-the-elections-who-benefits-from-hungarys-conflict-with-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial tension before the elections: who benefits from Hungary&#8217;s conflict with Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A diplomatic standoff is unfolding between Hungary and Ukraine, which is the result of internal political games. The tension has no real basis, but serves as a tool to mobilize the electorate before the vote in Hungary and plays into the Kremlin&#8217;s hands.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This opinion was expressed on the air of &#8220;Pryamoy&#8221; by Andriy Gorodnytskyi, a political scientist, candidate of philosophical sciences.<\/p>\n<p> According to him, politicians from the neighboring state are exploiting Ukraine&#8217;s difficult situation to gain the support of citizens based on antagonistic feelings. &#8220;What&#8217;s most interesting is that this is an artificially created conflict that does not exist in principle, but we know the reason for this &#8211; it is the elections that are taking place in Hungary,&#8221; the studio guest noted.<\/p>\n<p> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pzRuhyzl6LQ<\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/political-banditry-what-happened-to-the-money-of-sberbank-in-hungary\/\">\u201cPolitical banditry\u201d: what happened to the money of Sberbank in Hungary<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p> &#8220;At the same time, statistics show a significant increase in anti-Ukrainian sentiment among Hungarians. If earlier the level of hostility was around 23%, then after active media campaigns it jumped to almost 40%,&#8221; Horodyntsky added.<\/p>\n<p> He also drew a parallel with the situation in Poland, where political forces also relied on manipulating history and symbolism for the sake of ratings. The political scientist believes that this situation is a consequence of many years of shortcomings of Ukrainian diplomacy in this area.<\/p>\n<p> In addition, according to Gorodnytsky, the anti-Ukrainian steps of the Hungarian authorities have a clear financial color and are supported by Moscow&#8217;s interests. Vig drew attention to the fact that the Russian presence in European political processes has deep roots since the times of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;This whole Orban group receives approximately 500 to 1 billion euros a year from the Druzhba oil pipeline, from this oil, that is, they simply receive their margin and feel comfortable,&#8221; explains Andriy Gorodnytsky.<\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" data-right>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-fate-of-the-druzhba-oil-pipeline-will-ukraine-be-forced-to-yield-to-orban\/\">The fate of the Druzhba oil pipeline: will Ukraine be forced to yield to Orban?<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p> We will remind, recently the Hungarian authorities in Budapest <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/uhorska-vlada-zatrymala-simokh-pratsivnykiv-oshchadbanku-mzs\/\">detained seven Ukrainian citizens<\/a> \u2013 employees of Oschadbank \u2013 and seized the money they were transporting. At the same time, the Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/orban-vidviduvav-antyterorystychnyy-tsentr-naperedodni-zakhoplennia-ukrainskykh-inkasatoriv\/\">visited the anti-terrorist center<\/a> on the day of the seizure of the Ukrainian collection vehicles. Later that day, the security forces of this unit seized a car with currency and gold.<\/p>\n<p> Subsequently, seven collectors of Oschadbank, who were previously detained in Hungary, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zatrymanykh-inkasatoriv-oshchadbanku-deportuvaly-z-uhorshchyny-zmi\/\">were deported from the country<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraina-povernula-simokh-inkasatoriv-oshchadbanku-z-uhorshchyny\/\">returned to Ukraine<\/a> . Meanwhile, the National Bank of Ukraine is working to <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/nbu-pratsiuie-nad-povernenniam-vantazhu-z-inkasatorskykh-avto-zatrymanykh-v-uhorshchyni\/\">return the cargo from the collector&#8217;s cars<\/a> , which were detained by the Hungarian authorities. The regulator called the incident a provocation without legal grounds. It also became known that the Hungarian authorities are ready to transfer two confiscated Oschadbank cars to Ukraine, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/uhorshchyna-planuie-povernuty-vykradeni-avto-oshchadbanku-ale-bez-hroshey-zmi\/\">they do not plan to return the funds and gold<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> According to political scientist Serhiy Taran, the incident with the detention in Hungary of a vehicle carrying a large sum of money <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zatrymannia-inkasatoriv-v-uhorshchyni-u-chomu-realna-prychyna\/\">is artificially tied to the election campaign<\/a> of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is currently trying to increase his own rating through the confrontation with Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A diplomatic standoff is unfolding between Hungary and Ukraine, which is the result of internal political games. The tension has no real basis, but serves as a tool to mobilize the electorate before the vote in Hungary and plays into the Kremlin&#8217;s hands. This opinion was expressed on the air of &#8220;Pryamoy&#8221; by Andriy Gorodnytskyi, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1369479,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76885],"class_list":["post-1369503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1369503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1369479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1369503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1369503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}