For the first time since the beginning of the war, Transcarpathia has been hit by a rocket attack, the projectile hit an infrastructural object in the mountainous region, the damage assessment and the clarification of whether there are any injured or victims are ongoing, said Governor Viktor Mikita.
A fire broke out and windows were broken in a radius of about 500 meters near Volóc in Transcarpathia, when a rocket attack hit the area on Tuesday evening. According to the Ukrainian Hungarian news portal Kárpáthír, a missile hit a transformer station near the Voloc railway station.
According to the Transcarpathian military administration, 57 houses were left without gas supply because the gas distribution line was damaged.
Shrapnel from the rocket damaged several cars parked nearby. There is currently no information about the injured. Disaster response specialists are working on site.
The air defense service of the Hungarian Defense Forces issued an alert shortly after 10 p.m. because the radars indicated an unidentified aircraft and a Gripen fighter of the Air Defense Readiness Service took off, hirado.hu reported.
During the inspection of the affected airspace, no aircraft was found, however, the plane remained in the area for some time for airspace surveillance, and then returned to the Kecskemét base.
The missile may have hit a railway station
A missile may have hit a railway station in Transcarpathia - the State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade responsible for information and the international presentation of Hungary told Kossuth radio Good morning, Hungary! in his show.
Tamás Menczer said that they are in constant contact with the foreign representation in Ungvár, their colleagues working there said that the air raid alert started a few minutes after 6 pm on Tuesday and lasted for two hours. According to current information, no one was injured in the attack, he added.
"It is also important to note that this attack proves that we made a good decision when we decided not to deliver weapons to the war," Tamás Menczer emphasized, adding that the military supplies - as soon as they cross the Hungarian-Ukrainian border - are also Russian could become the target of an attack.
When asked, he also mentioned that the EU sanctions package is still being compiled, but the Hungarian position is clear: the government cannot support the sanctioning of the import of natural gas and crude oil, because they cannot make the Hungarian people pay the price of the war.
The state secretary drew attention to the fact that 85 percent of Hungarian gas consumption is Russian gas, and 65 percent of crude oil consumption is Russian oil, which means the purchase of 20,000 tons of crude oil per day. According to Tamás Menczer, replacing this is simply impossible overnight. "Acquiring energy carriers is not a philosophical question, but a physical question and a question of reality," the state secretary pointed out.
He also said that the government agrees that European energy procurement needs to be diversified, that Hungary has done its homework, but gas and oil can only be bought from where they are and where they can be delivered.
Tamás Menczer said on the M1 current channel that very serious development would be needed on the Croatian side in order for Hungary to receive more crude oil through the Adriatic pipeline, and that the Hungarian refinery technology would also have to be converted to a different type of crude oil, which would also take years and hundreds of millions dollar investment would be required.
MTI / hirado.hu / karpathir.com
