President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Ukraine has completed repairs on the damaged section of the Druzhba oil pipeline, opening the way for the resumption of Russian oil transit to Hungary and Slovakia and potentially clearing a major obstacle to the release of a 90 billion euro EU loan for Kyiv. The southern branch of the Druzhba pipeline had been out of operation since late January after what Kyiv described as damage caused by a Russian strike. The shutdown created serious tensions with