This year, there were 16 deaths from the coronavirus among soldiers and defense personnel. The army has “many, many orphans” who have been supported by the soldiers, but “we cannot make up for our lost man,” said Tibor Benkő on Spirit FM Exclusive.

The Minister of Defense also talks about the six-month salary that uniforms will receive for their “dedicated, conscientious work” based on a government decision, and expects a 10 per cent pay rise from 1 January.

Tibor Benkő also covered education, and in the cadet training program, an agreement was signed between the 100th and upper secondary school students that this would also play a role in the education of the institution. There is currently a national defense high school and college in Debrecen, with the goal of having 8-10 such institutions in the country by 2030.

The head of the ministry on the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan is of the opinion that this should not have been the case. Regarding the migration situation on the Polish-Belarusian border, he said that if Poland demanded it, 50 soldiers of the Hungarian army were prepared to leave for the border. atv.hu.

He described the Ukrainian-Russian tension as “common sense, there can be no war now,” adding that the Hungarian government does not support Ukraine’s accession to NATO because we did not have good allies in its policy with the Hungarians in Transcarpathia.

(Cover image: Migrants entering the European Union at the Polish border near the border crossing in Brodno, Belarus, on November 12, 2021. Photo: EPA / MTI)