Tribute was paid in Kosovo to our soldiers who fell in World War I

Text: Lieutenant Tibor Maksa | Photo: by the author | 16:03 June 2, 2026

On the occasion of Heroes' Day, soldiers of the 34th rotation of the Hungarian Defence Forces KFOR Contingent paid tribute to those who fell in World War I at the Austro-Hungarian military cemetery in Peć/Pejë, Kosovo. Prior to the event, a group of Hungarian peacekeepers volunteered to maintain the cemetery to ensure it was neat and dignified for the commemoration of the Hungarian heroes.

At the ceremony held at the memorial —restored in 2014 with financial support from Austria and Hungary—Major Kornél Horváth, the Catholic field chaplain of the Hungarian Contingent, offered a prayer for the salvation of the Hungarian soldiers who fell in the Balkan theater of war during World War I and were buried in the military cemetery in Peć/Pejë (then known as Ipek).

At the end of the commemoration, Dr. László Dux, Ambassador of Hungary to Kosovo, Colonel Csaba Szabó, Senior National Representative of the Hungarian Defence Forces, Lieutenant Colonel Tamás Robotka, Commander of Camp Novo Selo, Lieutenant Colonel Botond Hetényi, Commander of the Hungarian Contingent, and Lieutenant Colonel Stefan Klocko, Deputy Senior Military Representative of the Austrian Armed Forces, laid wreaths of remembrance at the monument.