March 6 (Reuters) - Ukraine's foreign minister Andrii Sybiha said on Friday that Kyiv had secured the release of seven Ukrainian nationals who were held in Budapest.

Sybiha said in an X post that the released Ukrainian nationals were safe and had crossed the Ukrainian border.

Earlier on Friday Ukraine's foreign ministry summoned Hungary's acting chargé d'affaires in Kyiv over the detention of the Ukrainian nationals in Budapest.

(Reporting by Rhea Rose Abraham in Bengaluru, Editing by William Maclean)