Ukraine-Hungary oil pipeline row threatens EU loan
Kyiv and Budapest disagree on how badly damaged a hub in western Ukraine bombed by Russia really is, as its oil flow remains suspended.
Kyiv and Budapest disagree on how badly damaged a hub in western Ukraine bombed by Russia really is, as its oil flow remains suspended. Grouped from 5 articles across 4 sources.
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Kyiv and Budapest disagree on how badly damaged a hub in western Ukraine bombed by Russia really is, as its oil flow remains suspended.
KYIV, March 20 - Ukraine is still expecting the first tranche of a 90-billion euro ($103.89 billion) loan from the European Union next month, despite a failure to break Hungary's veto of the funding at a summit this week, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday.
Hungary and Slovakia have said they will not approve a major loan package for Ukraine until oil deliveries from Russia through the Druzhba pipeline are restored. EU leaders failed to sway them in Brussels.
Hungary is blocking the European Union from providing Ukraine with a loan to help its war effort.
BRUSSELS, March 20 - The EU will find ways to pay out the promised 90 billion euro ($104.2 billion) loan to Ukraine despite Hungary's ongoing resistance, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said early on Friday.
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