"It is outrageous and unacceptable to beat someone to death -- a Hungarian, no less -- just because he didn’t want to go to war and didn’t want to take part in all the mindless killing," Levente Magyar said on Facebook.

"Today we are immediately summoning Ukraine’s ambassador to Budapest after Ukrainian conscription officers beat a Hungarian man during a forced conscription operation in Transcarpathia, who later died of his injuries," the state secretary said.

"Reports say the Ukrainian officers beat the man with an iron rod before forcing him into a van and taking him to the recruitment centre," Magyar said.

"The Hungarian family members were told that everything was fine, but the man later died of his injuries."
 

"A Hungarian man was killed in Ukraine just because he didn’t want to go to war. We offer our sincere condolences to the family, and we stand with them," he added.

Peter Sztaray, the state secretary for security policy and energy security, condemned the actions of the conscription officers, and demanded, on behalf of the Hungarian government, an explanation from Ukrainian leaders.

"What is the guarantee that such an incident will not happen in the future?" Sztaray said, according to a ministry statement. "What kind of investigation do the Ukrainian authorities plan to carry out to uncover the facts? How will the family of the deceased be compensated?"

The state secretary called it "outrageous and unacceptable" that a Hungarian man was beaten to death because he did not want to go to war.

Fegyir Sandor, Ukraine’s ambassador to Hungary, said he had been briefed on the incident and promised to provide answers.

Fidesz-Christian Democrats MEP: 'We cannot remain silent'

Fidesz-Christian Democrat MEP Annamaria Vicsek on Thursday paid tribute to an ethnic Hungarian man beaten by recruiting officers in Ukraine so badly that he died later, saying: "We cannot remain silent, because those who remain silent prepare the silence of the next victim."

"A black ribbon above our heart. A life that cannot be given back. A silent warning that cannot be silenced," Vicsek said in a post on Facebook.
 

She added that Jozsef Sebestyen died as a result of brutal mistreatment he suffered at the hands of recruitment officers who dragged him away.
 

"For us ethnic Hungarians in Vojvodina, this is not an unheard of story. During the Yugoslav wars, many ethnic Hungarian men were sent to the war zone on both the Serbian and the Croatian sides," she added.

Ukraine crisis – Orban expresses condolences to family of Hungarian man dead as a result of forced conscription

"I offer my sincere condolences to the family of the Hungarian man who died as a result of Ukrainian forced military conscription," Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Facebook on Thursday. "We stand with you in these difficult hours."
 

The media outlet Mandiner reported on Wednesday evening that Ukrainian conscription officers had beaten a Transcarpathian man with Hungarian citizenship, who died in hospital three weeks after the incident, on July 6. The incident was reported by the man’s brother.
 

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