Luke Harding
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Today in Focus · Is the tide turning for Ukraine in war with Russia? – The Latest · 23 Apr 2026
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This loan, 90 billion euros,
Two thirds of it for Ukraine's military, a third to pay salaries for the economy.
It's been stalled and stalled and stalled, blocked late last year by Viktor Orban and with a huge row between Hungary and Ukraine, which is, I mean, there are still tensions, of course, but there's a new prime minister in the shape of Peter Magyar.
And it looks like this money is coming soon.
Yeah, I mean, I think that's right.
It was extremely acrimonious.
It was really almost kind of open hostility between Hungary and Ukraine, with Orban saying that he would block the loan until oil started flowing through this pipeline.
It's called the Druzhba pipeline, Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia.
The Ukrainians said that Russia had bombed it.
It wasn't possible.
Orban said they were lying.
Now it looks like the money will come to Kyiv and also the oil will flow to Budapest.
So this is a breakthrough.
I mean, the other kind of quite interesting thing is a change of tone from Zelensky, because since Donald Trump came back to the White House last year,
He's really done everything he can to try and please Trump to treat him like a reliable partner, an ally of Ukraine, even though, in my opinion, Trump has swapped sides and supports the Russians.
I mean, we can talk about to what degree.
But Zelensky's rhetoric recently has been kind of much cooler, actually, towards Trump.
And I think really there's a kind of strategic realization by everybody that the Americans are practically out.
I mean, no more American weapons going directly from Washington to Kiev.
And that really supporting Ukraine is Ukraine's problem and Europe's problem.
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