According to: https://instantview.telegram.org/contest/kisalfold.hu/template25/issue1/ this image should be a cover, BUT this issue declined by a mistake and here is why.
First of all - semantic values. This image caption, for example, sounds like "Kelet-Európa útja... (way of East Europe...)" and caption below sounds like "...és Nyugat-Európáé. (... and West Europe)". They are in contact with each other and ripping off one of them not looking good.
Secondly - source code. There was template author's argument in declined issue "Image has class article-lead-pic", but <img> have no classes, table which contain <img> do. And more - every table in article which contains <img> have class "article-lead-pic".
And third - there is pages on this site with real covers. Here, for example: https://www.kisalfold.hu/regenyujsag/fokuszban_a_fotosszenvedely/2586961/
So, in the worst case, this page cover must be taken from meta, but not from the middle of the article.