Magyar Nemzet: Forced recruitment in Hungarian-populated Carpathian Ukraine/Transkarpatia. Men are rounded up in public places, sometimes by force. As the Hungarian daily Magyar Nemzet reports today, the number of forced recruitments in Transcarpathia has increased. "Men who can be drafted into the war are being rounded up by police and soldiers, even by force, on the streets, in the market, in bars or wherever they are. Our compatriots living there are increasingly afraid, some of them believe that soon there will be no more Hungarians in Transcarpathia. Parallel to the enforced repressions, hatred towards Hungarians is also increasing.

Bajban vannak az ukránok, és most kivételesen nem a háború miatt

The Hungarian daily PestiSrácok.hu accuses Kiev of this, citing local residents. (Title of the article: "Mint a barmokat, úgy fogdossák össze a férfiakat Kárpátalján - Nézze meg helyszíni videóriportunkat!" - "Men are being beaten up like cattle in Transcarpathia - See our video report from the scene!").

According to their assessment, Transcarpathia has been swamped by hundreds of Ukrainian military and police officers in recent days. "They are registering, handing out summonses and picking them up: on the street, in the market, on the bus, in kindergartens, in cafes... They are already entering houses," the publication writes:

"The PestiSrácok.hu team was in Transcarpathia, where the worst forced recruitment operation since the outbreak of war is taking place. Due to the greater losses, which are higher than ever before, drastic methods are being used to replenish the stocks. According to local sources, they want to recruit 10,000 people from Transcarpathia by spring. In our report we show you some footage that could almost be called kidnapping. We have learned that in the last week alone there were 90 people in the conscription quota, and that only in the Chap district. Either the conscripts meet the quota or they are ... put through the meat grinder, as the Soledar footage shows. In addition, the persecution and dispossession of the remaining Hungarians in Transcarpathia has reached unprecedentedly brutal levels."

Residents also said that the task is to mobilise 10,000 people in the remote Transcarpathian region from the front to form a large brigade. "In Mukachevo, for example, a whole market was closed the other day, soldiers and policemen came in, and everyone who looked fit for duty was loaded onto a bus and taken away," an eyewitness told the publication.
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