Member states meet this morning to discuss loan after longstanding disagreement between Kyiv and outgoing Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán
Slovak economy minister Denisa Saková just said that the Ukrainian operator Ukrtransnafta has confirmed it started the “pressurisation and filling” of the Druzhba pipeline, with deliveries to Slovakia expected to resume on Thursday morning.
For what it’s worth, AFP is reporting a senior Kyiv official as telling the agency that Ukraine will restart the oil flows through the Druzhba pipeline “within a few hours.”
Let’s see if the EU’s decision can be made before then, or if Hungary will hold out until the oil is actually flowing.
After four months of very public disagreements between Ukraine and Hungary, today could be the day when the EU finally signs off (for the second time) on the critical €90bn loan for Kyiv.
