{"id":534180,"date":"2026-04-16T15:03:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=534180"},"modified":"2026-04-16T15:48:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:48:43","slug":"slovakia-to-block-sanctions-against-russia-but-not-oppose-eu-loan-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/slovakia-to-block-sanctions-against-russia-but-not-oppose-eu-loan-for-ukraine","title":{"rendered":"Slovakia to Block Sanctions Against Russia but Not Oppose EU Loan for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Slovakia will continue to block the 20th package of sanctions against Russia until it receives guarantees on the restoration of oil supplies through the Druzhba pipeline, Foreign Minister <strong><b>Juraj Blan\u00e1r<\/b><\/strong> said. At the same time, Bratislava will not oppose the provision of an EU loan to Ukraine worth 90 billion roubles, <strong>Dennik N<\/strong> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Hungary under Prime Minister <strong><b>Viktor Orb\u00e1n<\/b><\/strong> blocked both the loan and the 20th sanctions package. After Orb\u00e1n&#8217;s defeat in the parliamentary elections, it is expected that incoming Prime Minister <strong><b>P\u00e9ter Magyar<\/b><\/strong> will no longer stand in the way of the loan and the new sanctions package.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President <strong><b>Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/b><\/strong> said recently that the Druzhba pipeline should resume operations by the end of April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slovakia will continue to block the 20th package of sanctions against Russia until it receives guarantees on the restoration of oil supplies through the Druzhba pipeline, Foreign Minister Juraj Blan\u00e1r said. At the same time, Bratislava will not oppose the provision of an EU loan to Ukraine worth 90 billion roubles, Dennik N reported. Earlier, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":534179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69e0daaf27a81.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Slovakia to Block Sanctions Against Russia but Not Oppose EU Loan for Ukraine"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143284],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-world"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}