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Ukrainian President Zelensky welcomed the development, urging that the first tranche be delivered by May or June.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Published on 23 April 2026<\/span>23 April 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The European Union has given final approval to a 90 billion euro ($105 billion) loan for Ukraine and imposed a new round of sanctions on Russia, giving Kiev a boost after a long dispute.<\/p>\n The measures were signed after Hungary and Slovakia raised objections when Ukraine resumed oil flows after repairing the damaged Druzhba pipeline.<\/p>\n 4 item list<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n “The impasse is over,” EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas posted online. “Russia’s war economy is under increasing pressure, while Ukraine’s is getting a big boost.”<\/p>\n The dispute has strained EU support for Ukraine at a time when the United States has largely cut off Kiev amid the US-Israeli war over Iran and eased sanctions on Russian oil exports.<\/p>\n Hungary’s outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Orban \u2013 who suffered a crushing election defeat this month \u2013 blocked the loan to pressure Ukraine to fix a pipeline carrying Russian oil to his landlocked country.<\/p>\n The green light means Brussels can in the coming months begin disbursing the money Kiev desperately needs to plug a budget hole four years after Russia’s aggression.<\/p>\n Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed the EU’s approval of the loan.<\/p>\n “Today is an important day for our defense and our relations with the EU. The European aid loan to Ukraine has been freed up by 90 billion (euro or $105 billion) over two years,” Zelensky said on the X.<\/p>\n “It matters that Ukraine is achieving this level of financial certainty \u2013 after more than four years of full-scale war,” he said, urging that the first tranche be delivered by May or June.<\/p>\n At the same time, the EU’s 27 countries also signed off on a new package of sanctions against Moscow, which was blocked by both Hungary and Slovakia over the same issue.<\/p>\n The new round of economic penalties for the Kremlin \u2013 the 20th by the EU since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 \u2013 targets Russia’s energy, banking and trade sectors.<\/p>\n The measures include cracking down more heavily on the so-called \u201cshadow fleet\u201d of older tankers, which Moscow uses to avoid oil-export sanctions, and cracking down on Russian cryptocurrency traders.<\/p>\n But the EU declined to impose a full maritime services ban on ships carrying Russian crude, saying it expected Group of Seven (G7) partner countries to move forward together at a later date.<\/p>\n The bloc also announced it was halting sales of some machinery to the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan to prevent products from going to Russia.<\/p>\n This is the first time that the EU has used a mechanism to block entire categories of exports to a specific country to avoid sanctions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ukrainian President Zelensky welcomed the development, urging that the first tranche be delivered by May or June. 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