Hungary lifted its loan freeze on Wednesday after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the commissioning of a part of the Druzhba pipeline. The so-called written procedure followed.
The same process followed with the sanctions package against Russia, which, in addition to Hungary, was also unblocked by representatives of Slovakia. The countries conditioned their agreement to the loan and sanctions on the resumption of the transit of Russian oil through the Druzhba pipeline.
“Today is an important day for our defense and for our relations with the European Union. The European support loan for Ukraine has been unblocked – 90 billion euros for two years. This package will strengthen our army, increase the resilience of Ukraine and allow us to fulfill our social obligations to Ukrainians,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy commented on the approval of the EU loan.
“We are working to make the first tranche of this support package available as early as May-June. Funds from the European package will, among other things, be directed primarily to the production of weapons, the acquisition of necessary weapons from partners that we do not yet produce in Ukraine, and to the preparation of our energy sector and critical infrastructure for next winter,” Zelenskyy added, saying that at the EU summit in Cyprus on Thursday and Friday, he wants to leaders talk about further tightening of anti-Russian sanctions.
He also wants to discuss cooperation in the field of drones, while wanting to build on what, according to Zelensky, has already proven itself in connection with the current events in the Middle East.
