Around two dozen Hungarian mercenaries are fighting for Ukraine against Russia, Mandiner reveals, citing a lengthy report out of Blikk, and two may already be dead. As to those who may seek to come back home, they should expect serious legal trouble.
“A few months ago, it was reported in the press that there were eight Hungarians on the front line on the side of the Ukrainians who were not conscripted as dual Ukrainian-Hungarian citizens, but who volunteered to join the Omega Guard, that is, they are fighting in the elite unit fighting on the side of the Ukrainians, the international legion,” said Richard Bagjos, a security expert who has served in international mercenary units in Kuwait and Iraq.
The Hungarian mercenaries all volunteered individually but “stick together.” As to those who end up victims of the war, Blikk writes that such secret groups will typically disguise their deaths as some sort of traffic accident, and the insurance company also indicates this when the family receives compensation.
This year, Hungarian Richárd Bagjos was acquitted after facing charges for recruiting soldiers before the war in Ukraine even started. He now serves solely as a mercenary expert. He told Blikk that well-trained fighters can earn up to $5,000-$10,000 in Ukraine, depending on combat activity, task, and results, while others bring in around $1,000.
Two Hungarian “super soldiers” include a French-Hungarian who formerly served as a Foreign Legionnaire and a British-Hungarian citizen with combat training by elite English private units and served in G4S.
The Legionnaire, Levi, who also spent time training Hungarians in Transcarpathia, told Blikk: “My name is not a secret within the profession, just like almost every other professional, it is in an international database. If someone needs our expertise, they can find it and hire as many mercenaries as they want. The Ukrainians approached me, who are still recruiting for their international guards today. Next to Omega is the 3rd Assault Brigade, it is mixed, Ukrainian soldiers and mercenaries also serve in it, I was a trainer here, and they are still looking for specialists who know Hungarian. The training is tough; they fight on the front line of the battlefield, and even before that, on diversionary missions behind Russian lines, intimidating untrained Russian units. This guard destroyed the Russians’ Russian 2 S4 Tyulpan mortars, with kamikaze drones, from a distance of 100 meters, which meant that they penetrated two kilometers from the front line for the action. We received a huge amount of money for this, and upon hearing this, hundreds of people signed up to join the Ukrainian mercenaries,” he said.
“There is also the Tempest Group, which has been fighting under the Ukrainian flag since 2024, in reconnaissance and night deployment operations, said the other Hungarian mercenary,” the Brit-Hungarian mercenary nicknamed Six added, before giving even more colorful details about the mercenaries on the ground in Ukraine.
“The Compania Serpente is a Portuguese-speaking unit, Brazilian and South American ex-soldiers, anti-drug police units, and former bodyguards of drug cartels fight here. They are extremely tough, cruel, terrifying. The Russians are terrified of them. Tormenta Hispana is the same, only for soldiers who know Spanish, but here there are also three Hungarians, former Hungarian commandos, who in 2010 chose not to join the TEK, but to demobilize, and worked in Venezuela for years as bodyguards, in private armies. The Ukrainian General Staff knows exactly the figures and units of the mercenaries, but they do not really brag about this, and not because they do not want to upset the Hungarian government, but because in the mercenary world, it is not good to advertise who is fighting where. There are mercenaries from 32 countries in the Ukrainian legions, most of them are Americans.”
Six participated in the encirclement of Russian units and the identification of their leaders who committed war crimes, executions, and body snatching. The leaders, if captured, were handed over to Ukrainian intelligence, but it is not at all certain that they were brought to justice, he said.
“Whether the war criminals were executed or brought to justice is none of the mercenary’s business,” Six said. “I’m going to take a little break now, summer vacation, and then I’ll come back because it sounds cynical, but there’s money in war, and in my own opinion, I’m fighting on the good side, and so are the 20-25 Hungarians here. I know of two guys who are not going home anymore, that’s part of our lives, but if I thought about it for even a minute, I’d drag them away from here.”
The Ukrainian International Legion is constantly recruiting fighters. Previous military records, career, training, weapons knowledge, technical-tactical knowledge, and combat experience must be verified, Blikk lists. If the applicant meets all requirements, they will be invited for a personal interview.
No help is given by Ukraine in getting a visa or other travel arrangements. All applicants who pass the first phase need to get to Kyiv on their own.
And then, there are the legal ramifications for Hungarians who decide to be mercenaries in Ukraine. In short, it is a war crime.
As noted by Mandiner, according to the Hungarian Penal Code, “anyone who recruits for military service or other military service in the territory of Hungary for a foreign armed organization – other than an allied armed force – or mediates contractors for such service shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of one to five years.” The same applies to anyone who “voluntarily joins a foreign armed organization participating in an international or non-international armed conflict, offers to do so, or participates in training in such an armed organization.”
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