By Lili Bayer, Krisztina Than and Andrew Gray BRUSSELS, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Hungary maintained its veto on Monday on new EU sanctions on Russia and a huge loan for Ukraine amid a dispute over oil supplies,

Hungary said that it would block both the latest sanctions package on Russia and a financial aid package to Kyiv worth about $106 billion.

KYIV, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Ukraine's economy is enduring its toughest period since the early months of Russia's invasion ⁠after ⁠sustained air strikes left its power system in tatters as the war ⁠enters a fifth year, forcing firms to cut output and shrinking state revenues.

Serhii Kyslytsia is among those trying to negotiate an end to the conflict, which is entering its fifth year.

Olena Bilozerska and her husband always knew they wanted children. She was 34 and they were ready to start trying when the war erupted in eastern Ukraine in 2014. The couple joined the fight and decided a baby would have to wait.

VATICAN CITY, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Pope ⁠Leo ⁠made an impassioned ⁠appeal on Sunday for peace in Ukraine, ​saying an end to the four-year-old conflict "cannot be postponed" ‌as the United States ‌tries to broker an elusive accord between ⁠Moscow ⁠and Kyiv.

LONDON, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Ukraine's former top general Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, now serving as ambassador to the UK, dismissed questions about his presidential ambitions as "pub talk" and said he would not address his political future until after martial law ends.

Along with a growing number of war-wounded amputees, Mykhailo Varvarych and Iryna Botvynska are navigating an altered destiny after Varvarych lost both his legs during the Russian invasion.

IPC president Andrew Parsons urges Ukrainian athletes not to boycott the Winter Paralympics opening ceremony in protest at Russian and Belarusian athletes being allowed to compete under their national flags.