Ukraine has caved in to EU pressure to enable repairs to a pipeline carrying Russian oil to central Europe, in order to unblock a €90bn loan that was being held up by Hungary and Slovakia.
The Druzhba pipeline has been at the heart of a dispute between Kyiv and the Russia-friendly governments in Budapest and Bratislava, at a time when Europe is under pressure from the oil price shock triggered by the war with Iran.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday said he would accept technical support and funding from Brussels after previously resisting the idea of inspections of the pipeline, which has been offline since January after Russian strikes damaged it.
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