EU close to signing off on critical €90bn loan for Ukraine after months of vetoing from Hungary – Europe live

Member states meet this morning to discuss loan, as Ukraine starts pumping oil through Druzhba with Slovakia deliveries to resume Thursday

Slovak economy minister Denisa Saková just said that the Ukrainian operator Ukrtransnafta confirmed it has 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.”