Following the Council of Europe report, the brutality surrounding forced recruitment patrols in Ukraine must be covered by EU human rights sanctions. This is the view of Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó.
Referring to the Council of Europe report titled Memorandum on human rights elements for peace in Ukraine, dated July 8, 2025 and signed by the EU Commissioner for Human Rights, Michael O’Flaherty, Szijjártó points out that conscription in Ukraine involves murder, torture, brutal assault and brutal treatment.
— It is a fact that people are dying in Ukraine because of the brutality of the conscription officers, because they don’t want to go to war.
— Where are the NGOs, where are the Soros organizations, where are the so-called independent journalists, where are the human rights organizations, why do they not speak out and say that this manhunt on the streets of Ukraine is unacceptable? asks Péter Szijjártó.
The @coe report confirmed deaths, torture and brutal abuse during forced conscription in Ukraine. The Hungarian government proposes placing the Ukrainian officers who beat a Hungarian man to death on the EU’s human rights sanctions list. pic.twitter.com/dLCH3jFbwK
— Péter Szijjártó (@FM_Szijjarto) July 15, 2025
Szijjártó emphasizes that they view it as unacceptable and “shocking” that European politicians remain indifferent to the brutality and stresses that they demand the responsible recruiters be placed on the EU’s human rights sanctions list.
— This is a bare minimum that the EU must do in this issue, he emphasizes.