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News & Current Events May 6, 2026 at 4:51 PM

Hungary returns seized Ukrainian cash and gold in further sign of better relations

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Hungary returns seized Ukrainian cash and gold in further sign of better relations
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Hungary returns seized Ukrainian cash and gold in further sign of better relations
President Zelenskyy hailed the release of the funds as “An important step in relations with Hungary.”

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Virtual_Medium_6721 May 6, 2026 +1670
I propose the day Orban lost elections as international festivity day
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Any-Tomorrow-7344 May 6, 2026 +367
I’m hoping for another event that might make that even better.
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noir_lord May 6, 2026 +117
Two days.
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limehead May 6, 2026 +38
I have a personal one that I would like to add to the list, but in the spirit of humankind, and the bigger scope of things, F yea. F*** those two.
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Zogfrog 6 days ago +9
I wonder if my immediate third candidate was the same as yours, but anyway I agree we have to be reasonable, those two please.
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Koala_eiO 6 days ago +6
All three are older than 70, right?
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RemixOnAWhim 6 days ago +2
Would he fit in a breadbox?
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ContextSensitiveGeek 6 days ago +19
Maybe both could happen on the same day and we could have the world's biggest party ever! Huge!
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The_Grungeican 6 days ago +4
a party like no one's ever seen.
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mynamesyow19 6 days ago +5
It would be a celebration like in the Matrix in Zion before the finale. The very earth will shake with the reverberating footsteps of all of those dancing and rejoicing that the tyrants have found their just reward.
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Mirainai 6 days ago +6
three's a charm
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jcm86 6 days ago +2
Keep checking Polymarket.
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nastywillow 6 days ago +22
On that day I'll buy a proper paper Newspaper. You can't wipe your arse with the obituary on a Monitor screen.
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Eric_the_Barbarian 6 days ago +1
Not if you have can't in your heart.
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Agitated_Reveal_6211 May 6, 2026 +40
Be wary, those people like him dont stop just because they arent in power. He still is extremely powerful.
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Ax3stazy 6 days ago +33
He is not. He lost half his voters already and MP is not even in the parliament yet. Half his base was bought anyway. There is still a good chunk of fuckwits who would vote for him, but most wont even live to see the next election.
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Agitated_Reveal_6211 6 days ago +13
I hope not. I truly, truly hope you are right. I just learned not to d******* evil people who lack shame.
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SpiroG 6 days ago +7
I think he meant that he's powerful because he's still, and always be, a puppet and a bum-licker. I am sure a lot of his power evaporated simply because he's not a useful toy anymore, but he still *should* have connections and friends in high positions both within the country and internationally. But, heck, I do hope they all tossed him out like a mangy mutt and don't give the fat traitorous dipshit the time of day. It's clear he's a weak-willed, money-hungry imbecile, and who'd want to have anything to do with that kind of guy if he's not useful?
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manpizda 5 days ago +1
Wait, which fat, traitorous, weak-willed, money-hungry imbecile, dipshit are we talking about?
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Supernova1000000 5 days ago +1
Orbán.
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MRSN4P 6 days ago +30
One day, Mecha Orban returned for revenge.
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rudolf_waldheim 6 days ago +6
The system of Fidesz is rapidly collapsing. He's done.
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Venidle 6 days ago +3
What will he do next? What's the retirement plan for dethroned fascist?
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oldsecondhand 6 days ago +9
He will be an advisor to Trump or something.
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Venidle 6 days ago +6
Hell Trump might recruit him for a cabinet position
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ThomasDorlian May 6, 2026 +960
A great gesture! Finally some good news in the world
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[deleted] May 6, 2026 +96
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[deleted] 6 days ago +71
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Naive-Horror4209 6 days ago +22
Fidesz is falling apart. Every day there are one of their clan members crying on TV that they ‘didn’t know, everything was legal, what’s going to happen now?” We don’t need Netflix
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ZumboPrime 6 days ago +6
> It sucks that this change is during global crisis created by trump It's not just Trump. It's the *entire* Republican Party. They could stop him at any point, and actively choose not to. They are - *entirely without hyperbole* - a political group full of hatred, unchecked greed, pedophiles, grifters, religious zealots, and all the other worst traits humanity has to offer. They are running the entire United States government, dismantling what's left of their democracy, and successfully turning it into a fascist authoritarian regime.
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DreamLunatik 6 days ago +8
I’m proud of what has happened in Hungary but I think it is a bit early to say that they have gotten their shit together. They are 100% on the right track from what I can tell but there is a lot of work to be done yet.
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Exact_Patience_9767 May 6, 2026 +454
Ukraine and Zelenakyy gets respect and Putin gets flying drones and hides under a desk. That's a good timeline.
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Plastic-Fox0293 6 days ago +75
Do we dare hope that this is the actual beginning of the end for this monster?  The "putin is done" crowd have been disappointing us for a looong time now. But I'd really, really like to believe it. Now more than ever. No single mind can ever grasp the true extent of the harm he's caused. Can we just be done with him already as a planet? Please? 
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Equivalent-Gur416 6 days ago +28
I hate Putin almost as much as I hate our American proto-Putin.
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jamesbideaux 6 days ago +5
I just want to remind you that all the shit your american proto putin has done pales in comparision to the real deal. Maybe just because he was given less time and institutions are still somewhat working, but I find it important to point that out.
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Plastic-Fox0293 6 days ago +3
It's not really a pissing contest, both evils are extremely bad for the world. Which is worse just depends on who and where you are. 
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worldsayshi 4 days ago +1
Yeah let's not find out who's worst
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Mirria_ 6 days ago +8
Yeah I've long given up on ticking clock-predictions for awful people. Health, power, legitimacy, they've proven exceptionally resilient and people need to stop believing in divine karmic rétribution. Their day will come, but I'll believe it when it actually happens. And there will be no justice.
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Destinum 6 days ago +2
It goes without saying that Putin is a dead man once Russia loses the war, which has been an inevitable outcome for quite a while now. However, it's a very slow process. The war will almost certainly last another full year, probably even longer, but things are escalating. There are clear signs that some kind of uprising might be coming, such as the fact that propagandists are now openly criticising the war (which is illegal) on Russian national TV, and that the government is jamming the mobile internet inside Moscow itself under the guise of stopping drone attacks (when the only actual practical purpose is to make it harder for people to organise on the streets). Combine the above factors with the fact that the Russian economy is now in such a bad state that the government actually has to admit things aren't looking great (since not doing so would be too big of a cognitive dissonance for the average Russian), and it's almost impossible for *nothing* drastic to happen. What exactly will happen and when? Who knows. I personally won't hold my breath for it, but I also won't be surprised when things do go down.
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ElSergeO123 5 days ago +1
Depends on the timeliness. Extremely likely in 10 years Putin is out due to ɓiological reasons. Looking at trends, that he is literally isolated by FSO he might be too delusional for elites start planning coup. Maybe 1-2y. Russia can change very fast.
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Plastic-Fox0293 5 days ago +1
The whole world is changing fast. 10 years is a long time in these sorts of times. Opportunities to root the things that will affect the rest of the century are gonna be picked clean between now and then. We just gotta wait and see what takes root. 
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The_Grungeican 6 days ago +2
also, after the Iran fiasco, Ukraine seems to be holding all the cards. meanwhile the US has no cards and is playing with WW3.
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aberroco May 6, 2026 +158
Orban would have an ass stroke reading this news.
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BlueFlameDancing 6 days ago +30
Then he must've gone through it a few days ago as he's still in government until the 9th.
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IntelArtiGen May 6, 2026 +217
Crazy to think an european country can just steal money from another country like that, at least they returned it.
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MommysDeviantStool May 6, 2026 +104
It was a election thing. Dont ask why they thought it would help them. Even if they won the court would have returned it (Fidesz is still in power in the end). Edit: oh yeah, i forgot at some point they claimed it was money sent to Tisza from Ukraine :D
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Ax3stazy 6 days ago +49
The money was leaving the country, from Hungary heading to Ukraine. They claimed the money was for Tisza. How? Why? They also claimed Ukraine stole data from Tisza, while they also claimed they built the same database, why also claiming they support Tisza. Fukin insanity
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MommysDeviantStool 6 days ago +20
In the end they even claimed that the Twenty something years of IT guy working for Tisza was a Ukraine Spy that spied on them, while also Tisza is a puppet of Zelensky :D. It was just stupid asf.
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Sorqu 6 days ago +32
The actual story about the IT guy is a lot wilder. It is a fine example how incompetent everything has become involved with the fidesz regime. The IT guy is not twenty something, he is 19, and briefly did some IT work for Tisza and after that became a volunteer discord mod with the nickname gundalf. The Hungarian intelligence service tried to convince him to spy on Tisza. They tried to turn him with hookers and bribes and when that didn't work, they threatend him with treason. At this point someone actually competent from inside the service tipped him off and prepared him for interrogation, because he told the wildest shit, like jacked ukranian mobsters etc. and they belived him. When the story came out they leaked all the stuff gundalf said without fact cheking anything. After that they tried to portray him as a pedophile, but one of the investigating officer (Bence Szabó) became a whistleblower and revealed that everything was just made up. He got fired the next day and an investigation started against him. He had a mortgage that was tied to his employement and had to pay back in like 2 weeks so his brother made a go fund me for 12500 euros. In three days they collected 900 thousand euros before closing it early. That just shows how fed up people were with fidesz. The surplus money is going to be donated to charity. I guess his example gave courage to other service men, because not long after a military captain (Szilveszter Pálinkás) came forward telling us how Viktor Orbán's son was organising a military operation in Chad, to fight for Christianity and combat the imigrant situation with quotes like "We expect a 50% mortality, but that's the cost of becoming a combat ready military". Imagine him as one of those deranged televangelists you see in american television. You can't make this shit up and this was all happening less than two weeks before the election. The hungary listnook was maintaining a scandal calendar and had to split the days up to morning, noon, evening, because we had so much shit coming out. If it had not been real life it would have been super entertaining.
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Unfair_Ability3977 6 days ago +7
That military whistleblower was something else, very moving
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Illustrious_Cap2327 6 days ago +3
this is madness, absolute cinema
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Stingray77_NL 6 days ago +14
Putin Puppet Orban was at fault here..
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TheSenrigan 6 days ago
Like Russians money in Europe
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ImSpartacus811 6 days ago -11
> Crazy to think an european country can just steal money from another country like that Happens more often than you'd think.  Part of the reason that Iran agreed to the 2015 nuclear deal was [the release of around $100B in frozen Iranian assets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_frozen_assets) (along with some reduced sanctions). 
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IntelArtiGen 6 days ago +11
There's a difference with frozen assets. For example russian assets are currently frozen in Europe and it's totally justified. Countries can freeze assets if they think it's a threat for them to give back this money. The ukrainian cash & gold were just in transit in Hungary, and Ukraine is not a threat for hungarians, it wasn't justified and they didn't justify it this way because they know it's ridiculous. Iran used these $100B to build all the missiles that destroyed refineries in gulf states, so it's hard to say it wasn't justified to freeze these assets. The same way we know by giving back the frozen assets to Russia they would reinvest it all in missiles to send on Ukraine.
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Stingray77_NL 6 days ago +51
Orban was a full fledged Putin Puppet. Happy my Fellow Hungarian Europeans voted the idiot out.
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eagerinsomniac May 6, 2026 +21
Global politics with a single dub rn
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lzwzli 6 days ago +22
Let this be proof that elections work
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ClavicusLittleGift4U 6 days ago +15
Well played Magyar(s).
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Darklight731 6 days ago +13
Good decision being made in Hungary. The world is healing.
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IndependentRide4454 6 days ago +8
Well well…a pleasant surprise.
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SomeBaldDude2013 6 days ago +13
*Finally some good f****** news Gordon Ramsey meme*
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Ettubrute82 6 days ago +4
Love this. Welcome back, friends.
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jert3 6 days ago +8
Hungary for change!
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somecoolname42 6 days ago +11
Zelenskyy told them he was going to come take their cats and Hungary folded like a house of cards.
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louisa1925 6 days ago +3
Understandable.
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Perfect_Opposite2113 6 days ago +2
You sound more like your using butthurt voice.
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Magnet2025 6 days ago -17
Apparently the General who organized the seizure of Ukraine’s money died the same night. He “drowned” after hosting a private party for 150 at a lake side resort and wandered off.
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Nnarol 6 days ago +14
This is false. ~~organizer of the party was involved in the operation from the tax & customs office's part, not the officer who drowned~~. EDIT: It later came out that the one who drowned was a "key figure" in the operation too, although not in what capacity. There is no evidence pointing to anything else than him being drunk and unfortunately drowning, not even a suspicion of interests at play. https://dailynewshungary.com/general-found-dead-hungary-ukraine-convoy/\ https://dailynewshungary.com/new-details-about-nav-generals-tragic-death/
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FuriosoMk1 6 days ago +6
Huge if true - source?
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Snoo6116 6 days ago -7
P.S. fugg zelensky
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