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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Justin Spike

Bank employees detained and cash seized in Hungary, Ukraine says

Hungary-Ukraine-Cash Shipment - (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Ukraine's foreign minister accused Hungarian authorities of taking seven Ukrainian employees of a state-owned bank hostage and illegally seizing a cash shipment that was traveling in a convoy across Hungary.

In a post on X late Thursday, Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha wrote that the well-being of the seven Ukrainians — employees of the state-owned Oschadbank traveling in two armored cars between Austria and Ukraine — was unknown.

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