{"id":1375476,"date":"2026-03-29T17:38:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T14:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/orbans-government-invented-a-new-spy-scandal-involving-ukraine-what-is-known\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T17:38:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T14:38:34","slug":"orbans-government-invented-a-new-spy-scandal-involving-ukraine-what-is-known","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/orbans-government-invented-a-new-spy-scandal-involving-ukraine-what-is-known\/","title":{"rendered":"Orban&#8217;s government &#8220;invented&#8221; a new &#8220;spy&#8221; scandal involving Ukraine: what is known"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In Hungary, the government released a video of the interrogation of a 19-year-old IT activist associated with the opposition party &#8220;Tysa&#8221; and claimed that he was allegedly recruited by Ukraine. However, there are no such direct confessions in the recording itself.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This is reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/24.hu\/belfold\/2026\/03\/28\/alkotmanyvedelmi-hivatal-kihallgatas-tisza-part-szabo-bence\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">24hu<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> A nearly hour-long interrogation video has appeared on the government&#8217;s YouTube channel, in which a man says that after the start of Russia&#8217;s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he joined a community of specialists who helped prevent cyberattacks on Ukrainian IT systems.<\/p>\n<p> He also noted that he subsequently stopped participating in this activity.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I deeply sympathized with the civilians,&#8221; the interrogator said.<\/p>\n<p> During interrogation, he said that he was studying to be an information security engineer at the Estonian Cybersecurity Center, accredited by NATO, and also mentioned visiting the Estonian Embassy in Budapest.<\/p>\n<p> In the next part of the video, filmed later, he stated that after talking to the investigator, he suggested the possibility that he might have encountered a recruitment attempt.<\/p>\n<p> He linked this to a trip to Kyiv in 2023, where a meeting was organized for representatives of the IT community.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;He wanted to get involved somewhere,&#8221; the interrogator said of the man who introduced himself as Davydov.<\/p>\n<p> After the video was published, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that the IT worker allegedly confessed to being recruited by Ukrainians.<\/p>\n<p> At the same time, the leader of the &#8220;Tisa&#8221; party, Peter Magyar, called the situation an organized operation against a political force.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;It turns out that even if there were recruitment attempts against him, he rejected them,&#8221; said Peter Magyar.<\/p>\n<p> \t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/they-are-helping-moscow-sikorsky-spoke-sharply-about-orban-and-those-who-support-him\/\">Sikorsky\u2019s Warning: Orban Supporters Are Feeding Moscow<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\nBy the way, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/orbana-osvystaly-na-mitynhu-prem-ier-zvynuvatyv-protestuvalnykiv-u-roboti-na-ukrainu\/\">Orban was booed during a speech in the city of Gy\u0151r,<\/a> which is traditionally considered a stronghold of his Fidesz party.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraina-ta-yes-domovylys-pro-vidnovlennia-naftoprovodu-druzhba\/\">Ukraine recently agreed to the European Union&#8217;s offer of financial and technical assistance<\/a> for the restoration of the Druzhba oil pipeline.<\/p>\n<p> Previously, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/yes-tysne-na-ukrainu-cherez-naftoprovid-druzhba\/\">some European countries and the European Commission asked Ukraine to provide access<\/a> to the damaged section of the oil pipeline, but were allegedly refused.<\/p>\n<p> As is known, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/orban-pryhrozyv-prypynyty-postachannia-elektroenerhii-do-ukrainy-z-chym-tse-pov-iazano\/\">a possible interruption of electricity supplies to Ukraine if oil transit through the Druzhba oil pipeline is not resumed<\/a> .<\/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>In Hungary, the government released a video of the interrogation of a 19-year-old IT activist associated with the opposition party &#8220;Tysa&#8221; and claimed that he was allegedly recruited by Ukraine. However, there are no such direct confessions in the recording itself. This is reported by 24hu . A nearly hour-long interrogation video has appeared on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1105614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76875,76885,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1375476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-news","category-policy","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375476","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\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1375476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1105614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}