EU approves $100bn loan to Ukraine
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
EU ambassadors approve a promised $100bn loan to Ukraine after Hungary dropped its veto, following Viktor Orban's election defeat. Ukraine has now started pumping Russian oil towards Hungary again. Also: three container ships have been targeted by Iranian gunfire trying to transit the Strait of Hormuz; a new report says Colombian mercenaries backed by the UAE helped Sudanese paramilitary fighters capture the city of el-Fasher last year; why South Korean police are preparing to arrest the mogul who created the Kpop supergroup, BTS; how weather and natural disasters influence elections; a new book gives a voice to the many extraordinary women at the Nuremberg trials; and how an amateur fossil hunter found a rare fragment of the world's oldest marine crocodile.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.5 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:10.4 | I'm Celia Hatton, and at 1,500 GMT on Wednesday, the 22nd of April, these are our main stories. |
| 0:17.5 | A possible game changer for Kiev, a $100 billion loan to Ukraine has been approved by the |
| 0:23.8 | European Union after Hungary dropped its veto on the money. Three container ships have been targeted |
| 0:29.8 | by Iranian gunfire trying to transit the Strait of Hormuz, plus why the South Korean police |
| 0:35.9 | are preparing to arrest the mogul who created the K-pop supergroup, BTS. |
| 0:43.1 | Also in this podcast, |
| 0:45.0 | The Colombian mercenary help, technical facilitation of drones and other kind of firing techniques, |
| 0:52.5 | helped the RSF take over the city. |
| 0:55.0 | A new report says Colombian mercenaries backed by the United Arab Emirates |
| 1:00.1 | helped Sudanese paramilitary fighters capture the city of El Fasher last year. |
| 1:05.9 | And how climate change might be affecting your ability to vote. |
| 1:10.6 | Something like an earthquake or blood |
| 1:13.6 | is going to mean that people are not located |
| 1:16.4 | whether they should be located when they need to go to a polling session. |
| 1:23.9 | We'll start with a development that could be crucial for Ukraine |
| 1:27.4 | in its battle against Russia. |
| 1:29.8 | European Union ambassadors have approved a promised $100 billion loan to Ukraine after Hungary dropped its veto. |
| 1:37.6 | This marks the end to a long process. Budapest had blocked the money when it stopped getting Russian oil through the Drusba pipeline, which crosses Ukraine. |
| 1:46.4 | Kiev said the pipeline had been damaged after a Russian strike, but now says the oil has started |
| 1:52.1 | flowing again. Hungary's departing Prime Minister, Victor Orban, had accused Ukraine of deliberately |
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