When asked about the military moves the government spokesman Zoltán Kovács said in an emailed reply to Reuters on Monday that the official stance of Hungary is unchanged: "it is not participating in the training of Ukrainian soldiers and is not shipping weapons to Ukraine".

A Reuters TV journalist saw five of the Leopard tanks on a road near Szomod, about 75 km's west of the capital of Budapest.

Hungary, which shares a border with Ukraine in the east, is a member of NATO. PM Orban has said that Hungary has chosen to remain neutral and wants to stay out of the war, added The Sun.