{"id":4914,"date":"2026-03-04T15:45:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=4914"},"modified":"2026-03-30T17:28:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:28:00","slug":"russia-will-return-two-hungarian-ukrainian-pows-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/russia-will-return-two-hungarian-ukrainian-pows-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia will return two Hungarian-Ukrainian POWs \u2013 Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The two dual nationals had been conscripted into Kiev\u2019s military and ended up in Russian custody<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Moscow has offered to return two Hungarian-Ukrainian nationals taken prisoner in the Ukraine conflict, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.<\/p>\n<p>The president announced the move on Wednesday when he hosted Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto at the Kremlin. The issue of the POWs was raised earlier this week by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban during a phone call, Putin noted.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThese are citizens who hold dual citizenship, both Ukrainian and Hungarian, and they were forcibly conscripted. I have decided to release two people. As the prime minister requested, you may take them with you right away,\u201d<\/em> Putin told Szijjarto.<\/p>\n<p>Budapest has long raised concerns about ethnic Hungarians from Ukraine\u2019s Transcarpathia region being conscripted by Kiev and killed in the conflict. The tensions between Kiev and Budapest over the Hungarian minority predate the Russia-Ukraine hostilities.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban ahead of a joint press conference in the Kremlin, Moscow. July 5, 2024.\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69a6c8a285f54038b924522f.jpg\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/633621-putin-orban-phone-call\/\">Putin and Orban discuss Iran, Ukraine, and Hungarian POWs<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Budapest has repeatedly accused Kiev of violating the rights of ethnic Hungarians, limiting their educational options in their native language under the Ukrainization policies in force after the 2014 Maidan coup.<\/p>\n<p>Kiev, in turn, has accused Budapest of meddling in the country\u2019s domestic affairs, pointing at Hungary\u2019s longstanding practice of issuing passports to ethnic Hungarians in Ukraine, which has caused multiple diplomatic incidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two dual nationals had been conscripted into Kiev\u2019s military and ended up in Russian custody Moscow has offered to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4918,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914\/revisions\/4918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}