Hungary to install air defence system near Ukraine border


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  • Thursday, 21 Nov 2024

FILE PHOTO: Hungary's Defence Minister Kristof Szalay-Bobrovniczky arrives to take part in the European Air Defence Conference gathering 18 Defence ministers, at Les Invalides in Paris on June 19, 2023. GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary is going to install an air defence system in the northeastern part of the country as the threat of an escalation of the Ukraine-Russia war is "greater than ever", its defence minister said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday lowered the threshold for a nuclear strike in response to a broader range of conventional attacks, after the United States allowed Ukraine to fire American missiles deep into Russia.

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