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Ukrainian President Zelenskyy welcomes the development, urging that the first tranche be disbursed by May or June.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Published On 23 Apr 2026<\/span>23 Apr 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The European Union has given final approval to a 90-billion-euro ($105bn) loan for Ukraine and a new round of sanctions on Russia, in a boost for Kyiv after a prolonged row.<\/p>\n The measures were signed off after Hungary and Slovakia dropped objections when Ukraine restarted oil flows following repairs to the damaged Druzhba pipeline.<\/p>\n list of 4 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n \u201cDeadlock over,\u201d EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas posted online. \u201cRussia\u2019s war economy is under growing strain, while Ukraine is getting a major boost.\u201d<\/p>\n The row has held up EU support for Ukraine at a time when the United States has largely cut Kyiv off and eased sanctions on Russian oil exports amid the US-Israeli war on Iran.<\/p>\n Hungary\u2019s outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Orban \u2013 who suffered a crushing election defeat this month \u2013 stalled the loan as leverage to pressure Ukraine to fix the pipeline carrying Russian oil to his landlocked country.<\/p>\n The green light means that Brussels should, in the coming months, be able to start paying out the funds that Kyiv badly needs to plug budget black holes four years into Russia\u2019s invasion.<\/p>\n Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy welcomed the EU\u2019s approval of the loan.<\/p>\n \u201cToday is an important day for our defence and for our relations with the European Union. The European support loan for Ukraine has been unblocked \u2013 90 billion [euros or $105bn] over two years,\u201d Zelenskyy said on X.<\/p>\n \u201cIt matters that Ukraine is securing this level of financial certainty \u2013 after more than four years of full-scale war,\u201d he added, urging that the first tranche be disbursed by May or June.<\/p>\n At the same time, the EU\u2019s 27 countries also signed off on a new package of sanctions against Moscow that had been held up by both Hungary and Slovakia over the same row.<\/p>\n The new round of economic punishment for the Kremlin \u2013 the 20th by the EU since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 \u2013 targets Russia\u2019s energy, banking and trade sectors.<\/p>\n The measures included clamping down further on the so-called \u201cshadow fleet\u201d of ageing tankers that Moscow uses to skirt oil-export restrictions, and curbs on Russian cryptocurrency traders.<\/p>\n But the EU stopped short of imposing a full maritime service ban for vessels carrying Russian crude, saying it hoped to get Group of Seven (G7) partner nations to go ahead together on it at a later date.<\/p>\n The bloc also announced it was stopping sales of certain machinery to the Central Asian nation Kyrgyzstan to prevent the products from going to Russia.<\/p>\n That marks the first time the EU has used a mechanism to halt entire categories of exports to a specific country to avoid sanctions circumvention.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Ukrainian President Zelenskyy welcomes the development, urging that the first tranche be disbursed by May or June. Published On 23 Apr 202623 Apr 2026 The European Union has given final approval to a 90-billion-euro ($105bn) loan for Ukraine and a new round of sanctions on Russia, in a boost for Kyiv after a prolonged row. 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