The payment of a loan of 90 billion euros promised to Ukraine last December, as well as a 20th series of sanctions against Russia were approved on Wednesday by the ambassadors of the member states of the European Union. A decision taken several months late due to Hungary's veto.
Published on: 04/22/2026 - 2:38 p.m.
The ambassadors of the member countries of the European Union gave their agreement, Wednesday April 22, with several months of delay due to Hungary's veto, for the payment of a loan of 90 billion euros promised to Ukraine last December as well as for a twentieth package of sanctions against Russia.
The decision must be sent to the governments of the Twenty-Seven for their final validation within 24 hours. The principle of a loan of 90 billion euros to Ukraine, intended to finance kyiv's war effort for the years 2026 and 2027, was agreed by all the leaders of the Twenty-Seven during a European Council on December 19.
But the Hungarian Prime Minister at the time, Viktor Orban, close to Vladimir Putin's Russia, subsequently reneged on his commitment by refusing to sign the agreement, accusing Ukraine of having sabotaged the Druzhba oil pipeline which supplies Hungary with Russian oil via Ukrainian territory.
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The dispute also delayed the adoption of new sanctions against Moscow meant to mark the fourth anniversary of the large-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces on February 24, 2022.
The severe defeat of Viktor Orban in the legislative elections of April 12 and his upcoming replacement by the pro-European Peter Magyar, however, opened the way for the adoption of these two measures, further facilitated by the announcement of the imminent resumption of oil deliveries to Hungary and Slovakia by the Ukrainian operator of the Druzhba oil pipeline.
With AFP
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