{"id":1371424,"date":"2026-03-19T13:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/money-in-exchange-for-oil-orban-made-a-statement-about-unblocking-the-loan-for-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T13:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:50:15","slug":"money-in-exchange-for-oil-orban-made-a-statement-about-unblocking-the-loan-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/money-in-exchange-for-oil-orban-made-a-statement-about-unblocking-the-loan-for-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Money in exchange for oil: Orban made a statement about unblocking the loan for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in Brussels that Budapest will not unblock a decision in favor of Ukraine until the Druzhba oil pipeline resumes operation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurointegration.com.ua\/news\/2026\/03\/19\/7233559\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was reported by<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;European Truth&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before the start of the European Council meeting, Orban stressed that Hungary&#8217;s position remains unchanged. Budapest is allegedly ready to support Ukraine, but only after the pipeline is restored.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, by that time, there will be no decision that will be favorable for Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe are waiting for oil. Everything else is just a fairy tale. Therefore, we only believe in facts. Oil must reach Hungary\u2026 Until then, we cannot support any pro-Ukrainian proposal,\u201d the politician noted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraina-ta-yes-domovylys-pro-vidnovlennia-naftoprovodu-druzhba\/\">Ukraine recently agreed to the European Union&#8217;s offer of financial and technical assistance<\/a> to restore the Druzhba oil pipeline, damaged by a Russian attack.<\/p>\n<p> Previously, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/yes-tysne-na-ukrainu-cherez-naftoprovid-druzhba\/\">some European countries and the European Commission asked Ukraine to provide access<\/a> to the damaged section of the oil pipeline, but were allegedly refused.<\/p>\n<p> It was recently reported that on March 18 <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/nayblyzhchym-chasom-ievropeyski-eksperty-ohlianut-poshkodzhenu-dilianku-naftoprovodu-druzhby-zmi\/\">, experts from European Union countries will inspect a section of the Druzhba oil pipeline<\/a> damaged after a Russian attack.<\/p>\n<p> However, the day before, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraina-nemaie-informatsii-pro-vizyt-ievropeytsiv-dlia-ohliadu-naftoprovodu-druzhba-rechnyk-mzs\/\">Ukraine had no information about the visit of a European delegation<\/a> to inspect the damaged section of the Druzhba oil pipeline.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in Brussels that Budapest will not unblock a decision in favor of Ukraine until the Druzhba oil pipeline resumes operation. This was reported by &#8220;European Truth&#8221;. Before the start of the European Council meeting, Orban stressed that Hungary&#8217;s position remains unchanged. Budapest is allegedly ready to support Ukraine, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1317661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76873,76875,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1371424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-other-news","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1371424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1317661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}