Serbia has said it found “explosives of devastating power” near a pipeline that carries Russian natural gas to Hungary and beyond, sparking claims by Hungary’s leading opposition candidate of a possible “false flag” operation aimed at influencing the country’s elections. “An investigation is under way,” Orbán said on social media, adding that he had convened an emergency meeting of the country’s defence council. “Looks like a seemingly convenient threat of terrorist action,” he said on social media. “This is completely transparent and pathetic,” he wrote on social media. Weeks earlier, he and other journalists had been told by sources in Hungarian government circles of a “Russia-backed false flag attack in Serbia targeting the gas pipeline to Hungary”, Panyi said on social media.

Source: The Guardian April 05, 2026 18:43 UTC