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Posted on 04/23/2026 3:32:08 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Cash-strapped Ukraine has secured a crucial European Union loan that will provide a vital lifeline to sustain its wartime efforts this year.
The 90 billion-euro ($106 billion) package was formally approved on Thursday, days after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that the Ukrainian section of the Druzhba pipeline had been repaired and the flow of oil would resume to Slovakia and Hungary, conditions linked to the release of the funds.
Approval had been held up for months amid political friction inside the 27-nation EU, including resistance from outgoing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, widely seen as the Kremlin’s closest ally in the bloc. Orbán was defeated in an election earlier this month, clearing the way for a breakthrough in negotiations.
Here’s the importance of the EU package:
Why Kyiv needs the loan
The funding arrives at a critical moment. The International Monetary Fund estimates that Ukraine faces a financing gap of roughly 136 billion euros ($158 billion) over the next two years.
The EU loan is expected to cover about two-thirds of Ukraine’s funding needs in 2026 and 2027. Without it, officials warn that Kyiv could have run out of resources to sustain basic state functions and its war effort as early as this spring. The first tranche of funding is expected to be released in the coming months.
Ukraine will have access to 45 billion euros ($53 billion) for the remainder of this year, and 45 billion euros ($53 billion) for all of 2027.
Under the agreement, roughly a third of the funds will go toward budgetary support for Ukraine’s government, while the remainder will be directed to defense, covering weapons procurement and expanding domestic arms production.
Why it took so long
EU leaders agreed to the loan in December 2025, but implementation stalled for months amid a dispute over...
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Bankruptcy, default in future.
And how does stopping a loan to Ukraine that the majority of Hungarian supported and that would cost Hungry nothing make him a “patriotic ordinary man’s closest ally”? Face it, he was the Kremlin’s stooge.
Hahahahahahahaha!
"There's no such thing as a free lunch." --Milton Friedman
Drop the insults. What possible benefit was it to Hungary for Orban to oppose all of the EU and his own people in blocking a loan to Ukraine that costs Hungary nothing?
Ukraine intends to bring in workers from Africa due to a "labor shortage". Zelensky and his cohorts send white Christian men to die in war and then replace them with Africans.
It's a smashing success for globalists despite being an absolute loss for Ukrainians. Ukrainian women can now flee, be drafted (which has been proposed), or breed with the replacements from Africa.
Once the pesky Christians are out of the way, Zelensky will be sitting on plenty of money.
zh.eu/en/news/92548-presidents-office-ukraine-to-ease-entry-rules-for-african-migrant-workers
https://sfg.media/en/a/ukraine-africa-workers-labor-shortage/
Oooh! Poor baby sees NATO behind every tree! There’s a psychotropic drug for that.
Not a single penny has been allocated or delivered so far.
It’s just been approved.
Soon to arrive, Boris.
Expect another year of failure for Pootin’s Special Military Failure.
GOOD
Zelensky said none of the taxpayer money or weapons sent to Ukraine during Biden’s stolen term were loans despite President Trump calling them loans. Instead, Zelensky claimed what they received from the U.S., were grants.
Ukraine ping
The US spent about $50b a year each in Afghanistan and Iraq to fight tens of thousands of part-time guerrillas. For Ukraine to stalemate Russia’s million-strong invasion force, while developing new weapon systems, with the same amount of cash is quite the achievement.
Ukraine ping
The US spent about $50b a year each in Afghanistan and Iraq to fight tens of thousands of part-time guerrillas. For Ukraine to stalemate Russia’s million-strong invasion force, while developing new weapon systems, with the same amount of cash is quite the achievement.
Still pretending it’s not a proxy war I see.
“Soon to arrive, Boris.”
Bold words for a pussy canadian.
Sweaterman must need another vaca villa.
Epu: [Still pretending it’s not a proxy war I see.]
I ask myself "Why do all the ultra libs and socialists slobber over Putin and Ukraine?". In Europe for sure, but we have our own zealots in America too.
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