Hello and welcome to battleground Ukraine with me Saul David and Patrick Bishop.

Well, nothing is simple when it comes to diplomacy, is it? I was reminded of that this

week when Peter Magyar, Hungary's new Prime Minister, said he would drop his country's controversial

veto of the EU's 90 billion euro financial loan to Ukraine, but only if Kiev reopened the

Drusba pipeline that ships oil from Russia.

If the Drushba pipeline is in a condition to carry oil, he said,

then it should be reopened as promised.

We also call on Russia to supply oil into the pipeline.

Without it, it cannot function.

Well, as you say, Saul, nothing is simple, not only when it comes to diplomacy, but also when it comes to this pipeline,

because although it appeared that the oil would start to flow again, Zelensky's agreed to restore passage of oil through that pipeline,

which, remember, comes from eastern Russia, then funnels through Ukraine

to various points in Europe. Well, that all seemed to be hunky-dory. Everything was going

by the EU finalised the loan to Kiev, which has been sitting there blocked by Mr. Orban,

the outgoing Prime Minister.

But shortly after that, Russia said it's going to suspend oil coming through the pipeline from Kazakhstan to Germany via this route, citing technical reasons.

There are Deputy Prime Minister, Alexander Novak, said that from the 1st of May,

volumes of Kazakh oil previously transported via the Grushba pipeline to Germany will indeed be

redirected to other available logistics routes. Now, it's all a bit murthy what this actually means. Is this a punishment for

Germany? We don't know. But anyway, like I said, it's a complicated story. The interesting thing,

really, is that, you know, the money is now flowing, isn't it? This is good news for Kiev, obviously.

What's it going to be spent on? Well, the obvious thing, I think,

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