Hungary will keep granting protection to draft-age Ukrainian men despite new EU rules barring it.

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Hungary will keep granting protection to draft-age Ukrainian men despite new EU rules barring it. PM Péter Magyar says many are ethnic Hungarians from Transcarpathia and that it's wrong to prevent people from leaving a country at war. The EU rule, effective since August 5 at Kyiv's request, blocks new temporary protection for men who haven't met their military obligations. Hungary voted against it. Magyar has broken sharply from predecessor Orbán, calling Russia the "brutal aggressor" at