Death of József Sebestyén

József Sebestyén (10 November 1979 – 6 July 2025) was a Ukrainian, ethnic Hungarian man from Transcarpathia who was conscripted into the Ukrainian Army during the Russo-Ukrainian war and later died of his injures after he was allegedly beaten with iron bars by Ukrainian officers. His death was politicized, straining relations between Hungary and Ukraine, and leading to condemnation by several Hungarian officials, who themselves were accused of using the death for propaganda by Ukraine and Deutsche Welle.

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