What happened on 13 December 2021 in Ukraine and Hungary

What did 13 December 2021 bring in Ukraine and its neighbourhood? Two separate reports stood out: a personnel change at the Ukrainian interior ministry and a deadly road crash in Hungary.

In Ukraine, Oleksandr Hohilashvili was dismissed from his post as deputy minister of internal affairs. The dismissal came after a series of high-profile scandals, as reported at the time.

In Hungary, a vehicle carrying migrants crashed in Mórahalom while trying to avoid a police check. Seven people were killed and four more were injured. The driver, a Serbian national, was arrested.

The two events were unrelated. Together they marked the day: one a change in the leadership of a Ukrainian ministry, the other a fatal incident on a Hungarian road involving people being transported across the border area.

The reports on that date gave no further detail on the circumstances of either event, so this brief sets out only what was reported on 13 December 2021: the dismissal in Kyiv, and the casualties and the arrest in Mórahalom.