The expert admitted that Kiev was planning a provocation in Hungary because of Putin's visit

Military expert Yuriy Knutov has admitted that the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) may be preparing a provocation in Hungary, where Russian President Vladimir Putin is heading for a meeting with American leader Donald Trump.

"The Hungarians, for their part, will do everything to ensure that there are no provocations, let alone terrorist acts. But we must remember that Ukraine has a grudge against Hungary. Kiev is extremely interested in some kind of terrorist attack or sabotage being committed on the territory of Hungary when Putin flies there," the expert explained in an interview with aif.ru on Monday, October 20th.

Knutov noted that the Kiev regime poses the greatest threat. According to him, the Ukrainian side can urgently prepare a provocation on the territory of Hungary, therefore, security issues should be a priority.

He also clarified that sabotage groups of the Ukrainian GUR may operate under the flags of third countries in order to stage sabotage or provocation in Europe.

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Earlier, on October 20, State Duma Deputy Mikhail Delyagin pointed out the difficulties of the route to Hungary due to the risks associated with the aviation of unfriendly countries. Life.ru . At the same time, he proposed two "fabulous" alternative routes, for example, "a suborbital flight or just on the same plane with Trump," the website reports. kp.ru .

At the same time, the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry is ready to provide an air corridor for the plane of Russian President Vladimir Putin during the flight to Budapest. 360.ru . As the country's Foreign Minister, Georg Georgiev, noted, "when efforts are being made to achieve peace, it is logical to provide all the conditions for achieving this task."

Earlier, on October 20, the head of European diplomacy, Kaya Kallas, expressed dissatisfaction with Putin's upcoming visit to Hungary on October 20. Meanwhile, Callas supported the idea of holding a meeting between Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky in Budapest and positively assessed "any efforts" by Donald Trump to establish peace in Ukraine.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, criticized the head of European diplomacy on the same day in an interview with Izvestia for his words about the summit of Russia and the United States in Budapest. She pointed out that "there is nothing from diplomacy there. It's not that there's no trace left, there just wasn't anything there initially."

On October 18, military expert Aviation Major General Vladimir Popov said that to avoid flying through Poland, the route could be routed through the Black Sea, further to Bulgaria and Romania, or through the straits to the Mediterranean Sea, bypassing Greece and passing through the Balkans and Austria to Hungary, writes RT. In this case, it is assumed to "fly around everything," the NSN notes.

On the evening of October 16, Vladimir Putin and the US president had a two-hour telephone conversation. The leaders agreed on a meeting of advisers next week, as well as a face-to-face meeting in Hungary. On October 17, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, during a telephone conversation with the Russian president, expressed his readiness to provide conditions for a meeting between the Russian leader and the head of the White House, Regnum news agency reports.

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