Viktor Orbán Seizes Ukrainian Assets and Blocks €90B EU Aid

Hungary seizes buses carrying Oschadbank cash and gold and opens a suspected money‑laundering probe while seven bank employees are detained and later returned to Ukraine after diplomatic talks.Fidesz files a fast‑track bill to keep 35 million euro, 40 million US dollars and nine kilograms of gold permanently under arrest, a move that the Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrij Sybiha calls an attempt to legalize an illegal seizure and a threat to the rule of law.Prime Minister Viktor Orbán continues to block EU disbursement of a €90 billion emergency loan to Ukraine and ties Kyiv’s access to the support to repairs to the damaged Druzhba pipeline and to oil transit arrangements that Budapest says endanger its supplies.Regional energy tensions deepen as Croatia offers the JANAF Adriatic pipeline, MOL and JANAF begin joint capacity tests, and MOL moves to acquire Serbia’s NIS from Gazprom Neft, prompting complaints to the European Commission about sanctions and transit practices.
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