European UnionMoney, minerals and reconstruction
€90bn EU loan to Ukraine for 2026–2027
“The European Council agrees to provide a loan to Ukraine of EUR 90 billion for the years 2026-2027 based on EU borrowing on the capital markets backed by the EU budget headroom.”
- Promised
- In plan
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- Funded
- Delivering
- Delivered
Where it stands
€19.8bn had been paid by 14 October 2026: €3.2bn of macro-financial assistance, €15.8bn for defence procurement and €800m through the Ukraine Facility. The loan is enhanced cooperation of 24 member states; Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia are not part of it.
What has happened
About the cost
€90bn as worded. The Regulation that put the loan into law sets €90bn as its maximum (Article 4(1)). The high end is that ceiling; the low end is an editorial −10%.
More detail
Checks
- Version 1, 20 October 2026: Quote checked word for word at its source on 21 October 2026
- Approved by Pavel Guzhikov, editor, on 21 October 2026: Approved for the first publication on the AI Journalist's check.
- Checked by AI Journalist (automated) on 21 October 2026: Quote checked word for word at its source; dates, events, evidence links, figures and wording checked against the cited sources, with fixes made before publication.
Related promises
- Japan¥471.9bn Japanese loan in the G7 plan“Japan contributes to supporting Ukraine through providing Ukraine with a yen loan of 471.9 billion yen through a World Bank Financial Intermediary Fund, under the Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration (ERA) Loan initiative for Ukraine, which was agreed by the G7 Leaders last year and is to be repaid by future flows of extraordinary revenues stemming from immobilized Russian sovereign assets.”
- RepublicansSign a minerals agreement with Ukraine on Friday“President Zelenskyy is going to be coming on Friday. That's now confirmed. And we're going to be signing an agreement, which will be a very big agreement.”
- CanadaC$5bn Canadian loan in the G7 plan“Canada has concluded negotiations with Ukraine on the terms of its $5 billion contribution and will disburse half of the funds, totalling $2.5 billion, in the coming days, with the remaining sum soon to follow.”