European leaders celebrated the long-awaited approval of the release of a 90-billion-euro ($105-billion) loan for Ukraine on Thursday, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky quickly pushed the debate back to his country's EU accession.
After months of wrangling with Hungary, the final sign-off for the loan and a new package of EU sanctions on Russia boosted Zelensky as he touched down for talks with the bloc's leaders in the resort town of Ayia Napa on Cyprus.
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