Multibillion-euro EU loan: Is Ukraine now in a better position?

The EU should have asked Kyiv for proof that the pipeline was damaged, Pravda writes:

“Viktor Orbán blocked a 90-billion-euro EU loan to Ukraine. The EU leaders were angry at Budapest, rebuked Orbán, yet they did not ask Zelensky to prove that the pipeline was damaged. In a fact-based society, this would have been standard procedure, but it was not. … So what was the point of this whole ‘war’ over the Druzhba oil pipeline? To punish Putin? To bring about Orbán’s defeat? Neither of the above. It was just Zelensky flexing his muscles. While EU leaders stood by obediently and watched.”