Kyiv suspended the decision to recognize OTR Bank as a “war sponsor”
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The Ukrainian National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption has suspended the decision to include the Hungarian bank OTP in the list of “war sponsors”. The department announced this on Friday, September 29.
The agency emphasized that this decision was made based on the results of negotiations between representatives of NAPC and Hungary on the termination of cooperation with the Russian Federation.
NAPC expressed the hope that Budapest will now unblock the allocation of 500 million euros of assistance to Kyiv from a special EU fund.
The conflict over the recognition by the Ukrainian side of the Hungarian bank OTR as a “sponsor of war” led to a sharp deterioration of relations between Kiev and Budapest – despite the fact that Hungary, even before this incident, did not share the attitude of other European countries to blame Russia and unconditionally support Ukraine.
In addition, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán expressed the opinion that the European Union should respond to “very difficult questions”before starting negotiations on Ukraine’s possible accession.
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