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EU leaders have welcomed the end of diplomatic deadlock over a long-awaited €90bn (£78bn) loan for Ukraine, after the bloc finalised the agreement along with a 20th sanctions package against Russia.

After weeks of delay, the EU signed off on the loan on Thursday, in time for summit talks in Cyprus that are scheduled to begin in the evening and will include talks over a dinner with the Ukrainian leader, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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Hungary lifted its vetoes over the long-delayed loan and sanctions after a dispute over a damaged oil pipeline that traverses Ukraine came to an end. Russian oil deliveries to Hungary and Slovakia resumed on Thursday, the Hungarian energy group MOL reported, after both countries – heavily dependent on Russian crude – dropped their objections to EU support for Ukraine.
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Zelenskyy will join the other leaders in the Cypriot resort of Ayia Napa for talks over dinner. “It matters that Ukraine is securing this level of financial certainty,” he wrote on social media highlighting spending priorities that included arms production, “the procurement of necessary weapons from partners that do not yet produce in Ukraine,” and preparing the energy sector for next winter – a response to Russia’s devastating attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in recent months.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/23/eu-approves-ukraine-loan-sanctions-russia