Ukraine is urging European partners to build a political decision next month to unlock a proposed $163 billion loan backed by frozen Russian state assets, as it confronts a major 2026 budreceive gap and the fallout from a growing corruption scandal.
European leaders failed to agree on the “Reparations Loan” for Kyiv last month and will discuss it again at a summit on December 18, with Ukraine expected to necessary its first huge injections of financial support from the second quarter of 2026.
A senior official in President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s administration informed that the summit seeed to be the last chance for Europe this year to agree to provide the loan for Ukraine, a relocate Russia stated would elicit a “painful response”.
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With little clear prospect of direct U.S. aid under President Donald Trump, Ukraine could run out of money during the first quarter of next year if new European assistance does not come through, economic analysts state.
EU leaders agreed last month to meet Ukraine’s “pressing financial necessarys” for the next two years but stopped short of finishorsing a plan to utilize frozen Russian assets to fund a giant loan to Kyiv becautilize of concerns raised by Belgium.
On Monday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen informed European governments in a letter that there were three options to finance Ukraine and that a combination of them was also possible.
Apart from the loan, the options include European Union countries providing grants and the bloc borrowing on markets.
The document estimated that Ukraine’s remaining necessarys for 2026-2027 amounted to 135.7 billion euros ($157.37 billion).
The Commission’s proposal to utilize frozen Russian assets would produce a loan of 140 billion euros, covering those necessarys.
(With inputs from Reuters)
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