In June 2023, Russia transferred 11 allegedly ethnic Hungarian Ukrainian POWs to Hungary without Kyiv's knowledge. Two of them have now revealed details of their release in an exclusive interview with DW.
The war with Russia has devastated Ukraine s energy infrastructure, but the country is making a wartime push towards renewable energy sources like solar and wind power.
The EU Commission unlocked 10.2 billion euros ($11 billion) in frozen funds to Hungary ahead of the EU’s final summit on Dec. 14-15 where the bloc will decide on 50 billion euros in financial assistance to Ukraine and whether to open negotiations with Kyiv on EU accession. In the months leading up to the summit, Hungarian leader Viktor Orban had repeatedly threatened to block both decisions, using the blocked EU funding — which totals 30 billion euros withheld over Hungary’s democratic backsliding in recent years — as leverage in the upcoming votes on support for Ukraine.
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