May 31, 2023 – 10:50 AM
Wednesday Catalin Novak began visiting Hungarian soldiers who were wounded in Kosovo and recovering at home in hospital, and the President of the Republic posted three photos of this on Facebook:
As we wrote in the telex, 27 Hungarian and 11 Italian peacekeepers were wounded in northern Kosovo on Monday, Defense Minister Kristof Szalai Bobrovinsky said on Tuesday, after the plane carrying the soldiers home landed, that 12 of the 27 wounded had returned. house.
According to the information of the Ministry of National Defense, 11 of the 12 wounded who arrived home are serving in the 11th Armored Brigade MH István Bocskai in Hódmezővásárhely, and one of them is a reservist. Soldiers participating in the NATO Peacekeeping Force (KFOR) were deployed on Monday afternoon to carry out crowd dispersal duties at the office of the mayor of the Kosovo settlement in Zvecan, when the crowd gathered there due to the results of the previous elections.
The news was also shocking because there hadn’t been such violent clashes in Kosovo in years, and the injury of more than thirty soldiers indicated that unrest had already set in. You can read our analysis article on the background of this again here.