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The bank said they were in two vans carrying $80m (£60m) worth of cash between Austria and Ukraine.
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"The reasons are still unknown, as well as their current well-being," Andrii Sybiha wrote on X. "We have already sent an official note demanding an immediate release of our citizens."
According to Ukraine's state savings bank, Oschadbank, the seven workers were in two vans carrying $80m (£60m) worth of cash and 9kg of gold in a regular transport between Austria and Ukraine. They were "unjustifiably detained" and GPS data showed their vehicles in Budapest, it said.
Hungary's tax authority said on Friday that it was conducting criminal proceedings and added that one of the group was a former general of Ukraine's intelligence service.
"This year alone, more than $900m, €420m and 146 kilograms of gold bars were transported to Ukraine through the territory of Hungary," the national tax and customs administration said in a statement.
Relations between Ukraine and Hungary have deteriorated during Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and have descended into a war of words over a halt to Russian oil supplies through the Druzhba pipeline in Ukraine.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban made no mention of the seven bank workers in his regular radio appearance on Friday, although he did say "transit shipments" important to Ukraine would be halted until a row over Russian oil supplies was sorted out.
Hungarian reports described how black-clad officials from Hungary's TEK counter-terrorism centre raided the Ukrainian-registered vehicles on Thursday and then their convoy headed to Budapest.
Responding to the incident, Ukraine's foreign minister accused Hungary of "state terrorism and racketeering".
"We are talking about Hungary taking hostages and stealing money," said Sybiha on X.
Orban, who is seen as
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