{"id":14900,"date":"2026-04-22T13:53:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/eu-prepares-finalization-of-ukraine-loan-and-new-russia-sanctions-cyprus-says\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T13:53:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:53:26","slug":"eu-prepares-finalization-of-ukraine-loan-and-new-russia-sanctions-cyprus-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/eu-prepares-finalization-of-ukraine-loan-and-new-russia-sanctions-cyprus-says\/","title":{"rendered":"EU prepares finalization of Ukraine loan and new Russia sanctions, Cyprus says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1301617\">\n    <!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"first-img article_thumbnail_wrapper\" itemscope=\"\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n                                                                    <picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/eu_flags-1-320x200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/eu_flags-1.jpg\" alt=\"EU prepares finalization of Ukraine loan and new Russia sanctions, Cyprus says\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/eu_flags-1-960x600.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                        <\/source><\/picture>\n                                                        <\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>EU ambassadors have approved the disbursement of a promised \u20ac90 billion loan to Ukraine as well as a new package of sanctions against Russia, after Hungary \u200clifted its veto, the bloc\u2019s Cypriot presidency has said.<\/p>\n<p>The European Union\u2019s 27 member states are now expected to sign off on the deal by Thursday afternoon, a spokesperson for the Cypriot presidency added.<\/p>\n<p>The EU agreed last year on the loan to keep Ukraine liquid through \u20602026 and 2027. But Hungary refused to sign off on the deal as Russia-friendly Prime Minister Viktor Orban accused Ukraine of sabotaging the transit of Russian oil through a pipeline damaged by Russian attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The spat had also delayed the new sanctions against Russia, which the EU had initially aimed to adopt to mark the fourth anniversary of Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The stumbling block was finally removed when Hungary\u2019s \u200coil \u2060group MOL said on Wednesday it had been informed that the Ukrainian operator of the Druzhba pipeline was ready to resume crude oil transit to Hungary and Slovakia.<\/p>\n<p>MOL said it expected the first shipments via the pipeline to arrive \u2060in Hungary and Slovakia by Thursday at the latest. Both countries remain reliant on Russia for much of their energy.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s prospects for receiving the loan had already \u2060improved when Orban lost Hungary\u2019s parliamentary election on April 12. The leader of the winning party, Peter Magyar, has said he will no \u2060longer block the EU funds for Kyiv, though he is only expected to take power next month. 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The European Union\u2019s 27 member states are now expected to sign off on the deal by Thursday afternoon, a spokesperson &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"EU prepares finalization of Ukraine loan and new Russia sanctions, Cyprus says\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/eu-prepares-finalization-of-ukraine-loan-and-new-russia-sanctions-cyprus-says\/#more-14900\" aria-label=\"Read more about EU prepares finalization of Ukraine loan and new Russia sanctions, Cyprus says\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/eu_flags-1-960x600.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}