Apparently, there is a recent influx in Germany of Roma with brand new Ukrainian passports but who also have Hungarian passports asking for asylum. No one seems to know whether they are Ukrainian or Hungarian, and they speak Hungarian.

The most prosaic answer to this is that they are most probably from Transcarpathian Ukraine, and that thanks to the Hungarian Prime Minister, they were able to get a Hungarian passport as Hungarian speakers living abroad. Orban did grant Hungarian citizenship to Hungarian speakers outside of the country since quite a while.

• Flüchtlinge mit „druckfrischen ukrainischen Pässen“: Behörden gehen Hinweisen nach. In: Berliner Zeitung. 20.09.2023. https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/migration-fluechtlinge-mit-druckfrischen-ukrainischen-paessen-was-hat-es-damit-auf-sich-li.418003