Hungary uses veto to block EU cash for Ukraine

Hungary claims Ukraine is preventing the flow of cheap Russian oil to Slovakia and Hungary through the Soviet-era Druzhba pipeline. The pipeline was damaged by Russian airstrikes

Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban. The loan continues to be blocked by Hungary together with the 20th package of sanctions. File Picture: AP

EU foreign ministers failed to break the deadlock over the Hungarian government’s veto on crucial European policies relating to a €90bn funding for Ukraine for the next two years.

Budapest is also vetoing the EU’s twentieth sanctions package against Russia for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The impasse comes as Kyiv enters its fifth year under Moscow’s war from today.