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Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrives at the European Council meeting in Brussels, Belgium, on June 26, 2025.
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Why Ukraine could start losing Western aid for the first time

by Luca Léry Moffat

For more news like this directly into your inbox, subscribe to our weekly Ukraine Business Roundup newsletter. Billions in urgently needed financing to Ukraine are at risk as a deepening political crisis jeopardizes access to aid — all while Hungary continues to block a separate financial lifeline. Ukraine has so far failed to implement reforms needed to unlock almost $4 billion in World Bank and EU loans, putting it on track to permanently lose access to some earmarked funds for the first tim

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Ukrainian Sting drone interceptors in an undated photo.

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