KYIV (Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday reconnaissance drones had violated Ukrainian airspace, citing a preliminary military assessment that they had flown from Hungary to check the industrial potential of western border areas.

A Hungarian government spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Hungary is a member of the European Union and NATO, two organisations that are allied with Kyiv in Russia’s war in Ukraine, but relations between Kyiv and Budapest have often been fraught.

“I instructed all available information to be verified and that urgent reports be made on each recorded incident,” Zelenskiy said on Telegram after meeting Ukraine’s top military command.

After Russia’s invasion in February 2022, many large Ukrainian industrial compan

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