EU confident €90B Ukraine loan will be unlocked on Thursday
Lucian Nemoiu
BRUSSELS ― The EU will unlock its €90 billion loan to Ukraine on Thursday if, as officials now expect, oil flows restart via the Druzhba pipeline by then, according to five EU diplomats. The breakthrough hinges on the restoration of crude shipments through the Soviet-era Druzhba pipeline linking Ukraine to Hungary and Slovakia — a condition that outgoing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government used to block the loan. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced Tuesday that the
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