“Monaco Battalion” – Viktor Orbán’s Film Recommendation Causes a Stir

Following Viktor Orbán, Balázs Orbán, political director of the Hungarian prime minister, has also watched a memorable documentary about the road to war in Ukraine and recommends Róbert Ábrahám’s “Monaco Battalion” (Monaco hadtest) on X. The journalist and filmmaker, who hails from Transcarpathia, points out that although Russia attacked Ukraine, in his opinion, the liberal European and American elite, as well as the corrupt Ukrainian elite, are also responsible for the outbreak and continuation of the war.

The film, which was presented to members of the press on December 22, was given the title “Monaco Battalion” because, according to the authors, it features scenes shot in Monaco and on the French Riviera in which luxury cars with Ukrainian license plates can be seen, suggesting that Russians on the Côte d’Azur have been replaced by Ukrainian billionaires.

From golden toilets to luxury cars on the French Riviera — symbols of corruption few expected to see during a war. Monaco Battalion, made by Hungarians from Transcarpathia, examines the political, economic, & moral processes behind the war in Ukraine — and who continues to… pic.twitter.com/R96LW3ZRhw

— Balázs Orbán (@BalazsOrban_HU) January 8, 2026

The documentary, in which the footage from Monaco is only shown for a few minutes, primarily shows which events since 2013 – such as the 2014 Euromaidan protests, which, according to the filmmakers, were instigated by the West and coordinated primarily by right-wing extremist Bandera supporters – led to the outbreak and continuation of the war in Ukraine.

The filmmakers point out that a significant portion of Western aid to Ukraine, with the help of the top Ukrainian leadership, flows into the pockets of Ukrainians who are conspicuous on the French Riviera. Ukrainian leaders dismiss this phenomenon by claiming that the Ukrainians conspicuous in Monaco are pro-Russian Ukrainians.

The film shows Ukraine as a hotbed of corruption, where people are hunted down on the streets and then released from barracks for $18,000, and where officials in Kiev’s recruitment centers divide $2 to $4 billion in ransom money among themselves. According to the film, József Sebestyén, a Hungarian from Transcarpathia, was also a victim of this system and was brutally mistreated.

Róbert Ábrahám says in the film: “The rampage that the liberal mainstream and its masters have been waging in recent years is not only unprofessional, repulsive, or outrageous, but amounts to a war crime. (…)

They have made the sons of Europe accomplices in this thoroughly mendacious and corrupt bloodshed.”

He emphasized: “Whatever the liberal mainstream has done, it does not exonerate the Russians; aggression is aggression, violence is violence, blood is blood.” We talk more about the Ukrainians because the Russians do not want to join the European Union or NATO, do not demand our money, and do not “threaten us every other day.”

“They don’t expect us to bow down to them, worship them, and praise their non-existent democracy. And it was not the Russians who pulled our strings like puppets, and it was not the Russians who sold us as completely stupid; that was the work of our liberal elite,” Ábrahám explained.

“It was they who prevented the parties from sitting down at the table in time to end this senseless war with as few casualties as possible. It was they who intimidated everyone who spoke out for peace, who tolerated forced recruitment and all the brutality perpetrated by the recruiting officers (…), and it was they who exchanged Ukrainian flesh for euros and dollars at the cash register,” explained the producer and director in the film sequences.

Róbert Ábrahám. Photo: MTI/Hatházi Tamás

After the screening, Róbert Ábrahám told the media that filming had begun in mid-August, but to their surprise, they found that they could not get anyone on the Riviera to talk, not even the local press, because according to Western interpretation, everything evil is pro-Russian, even if it is Ukrainian. And if anyone questions this, from that moment on, no more questions can be asked, he reported.

In his opinion, the most important message of the film, even more important than the portrayal of corruption in Ukraine, is that today’s Western consciousness industry does whatever it wants with the people in the West. For example, it can persuade the peaceful citizens of Europe to support the bloodshed in their neighborhood.

This paints a sad picture of the Western world, in which we fight in the name of Western values, even though we have lost all the supposed values of the former West,

said Róbert Ábrahám.

The Ukrainian reactions were not long in coming. Richárd Thuróczy, one of the makers of the documentary, announced on Facebook at the end of the year that his name was also on Mirotworez’s infamous death list.

Viktor Orbán’s recommendation may also have contributed to the operators of the website, which targets “enemies of Ukraine,” becoming aware of the film: “One wrong decision is enough. You put a puppet at the head of a country, and war destroys everything. Watch Ábrahám Róbert’s film, it’s educational.”

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