On the evening of May 9, a former Ukrainian diplomat was harshly detained in central Budapest. He is suspected of espionage, informs Telex. According to the Hungarian government's Facebook page, the National Immigration Administration banned a Ukrainian citizen from entering or staying in the country due to suspicions of espionage.

Ukraine says it has expelled two Hungarian diplomats hours after the country’s main security agency said that it had arrested two people on suspicion of spying for Hungary by gathering intelligence on Ukraine’s military in the west of the country.

Ukraine’s Transcarpathia region borders Hungary and is home to a Hungarian minority. Over the past decade, Hungary has maintained that Kyiv is limiting the cultural and linguistic rights of the Hungarian population,