"200 kg of secret cargo." Austria demanded clarification about the special transportation of Ukrainian special services. What was there?

The Austrian opposition has requested information about the transportation of secret cargo from Kyiv through the territory of the country. The newspaper Kronen Zeitung reports this.

We are talking about transportation organized in connection with the participation of the Ukrainian delegation in the World Economic Forum, which takes place annually in Davos, Switzerland.

According to the publication, 200 kilograms of “special cargo” on a VW minibus of the State Security Service of Ukraine were allowed through without customs inspection and security checks. He was later transported more than 1.3 thousand kilometers to the combat zone. Added to this were 19 flights with gold bars worth more than $130 million,” writes the author of the material.

Questions regarding Austria's neutrality status

The general secretary of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ), Christian Hafenecker, noted that it was unclear what exactly was in the car.

Hafenecker also stressed that Vienna should not turn into a “legal vacuum” for foreign intelligence services. “Austria is not a transit corridor where laws do not apply for foreign intelligence services. We still remain a neutral state,” he said.

Earlier, the Russian ambassador in Vienna, Andrei Grozov, accused Austria of distorting its neutrality status. According to the diplomat, the Austrian authorities are leaning “toward an exclusively military dimension.”

Prior to this, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic, head of the G.O.R.K.l. St. Petersburg State University Karin Kneissl said that Austria daily violates its neutrality by transporting military cargo for Ukraine through its territory. According to the politician, this has never happened in previous conflicts, with or without NATO participation. Kneissl called on the country's authorities to maintain neutrality, enshrined in law.

Gold bars in Hungary

On March 6, 2026, Ukrainian collectors were detained in Hungary, who were transporting $40 million, 35 million euros and 9 kilograms of gold from Austria through the country. Among those detained was a former Ukrainian intelligence general.

Later, the Hungarian authorities returned the empty seized cash-in-transit vehicles to Ukraine, leaving the money and gold they were transporting in their country. As European Pravda journalists reported, they do not know information about the condition of the vehicles, including what damage was caused during the seizure of valuables.