EU Prepares €90B Loan Package for Ukraine, First Funds Expected in Second Quarter of 2026

Don't take credit away from the Hungarian people.

Haha. It's not JD's fault - we can all tell he doesn't know up from down Also, what the hell is this flowery language from the article. Get on with it! “We will have to finalize the memorandum of understanding, which will form the basis of the macro-financial assistance channel, we will have to update the plan for Ukraine, which underpins the Ukraine Facility, an important channel through which we intend to provide budgetary support to Ukraine, and, given that the package is based on a loan, we will have to develop a loan agreement,” Ujvári said.

While Ukraine does have issue with corruption aid is tracked petty tightly and money, weapons or other material going missing has been rare. Initially when the war started it is true a lot of aid wasn't being properly tracked because just getting help to Ukraine was the priority, over time systems were developed to ensure equipment and money was going where it was supposed to. The US found, back when it still supplied aid, that there was very little fraud occuring. It's also important to note a lot of the accusations that aid to Ukraine is misused, money stolen or equipment sold, are from Russia. They have a vested interest in lowering how much aid Ukraine is given and so constantly put out propaganda that the aid is being stolen. For instance the RT network is a Russian mouthpiece and they've put out a lot of stories about how aid was going missing, but when people have looked into the "facts" presented they find things like quotes from interviews with officials that never seemed to have happened. It's tough finding the reality of a situation but I'll go with the US government, and other countries, that say the vast majority of aid is being used properly as opposed to accusations from Russian owned media. edit: typo 

If they can't prove it they don't get it. Nobody is opening their wallets to line an oligarch's pockets.

Well there are some western institutions put there by lenders (EU, US) to soften the effect of corruption, since well its their money. But only lesser. In reality elites ALWYS take some % of money. The difference is US elite found a way to take it mostly without "corruption", but instead use legal monopolies and legal lobbing and such, while some other country elites do it via corruption. The effect is actually the same, it is no different if 20% of money gets missing via corruption in UA or 20% of money goes missing via legally increasing profit margins via army contractor monopolies and lobbing and such. Its the same 20% at the end. (20% is just my guess, but it probably is around there).

Since the beginning this loan package [was politically tied ](https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2026/02/04/council-agrees-position-on-legal-framework-to-provide-90-billion-in-financial-support-to-ukraine/)to whether Russia pays war reparations to Ukraine or not. >As also agreed by the European Council, the loan will be financed through EU borrowing on the capital markets and will be backed by the EU budget. The loans will become repayable only once Russia has paid war reparations to Ukraine. And it's of course very unclear if Russia ever pays war reparations, which also means that there is high possibility that Ukraine is not expected to pay the loan back. Also, the loans interests are paid from EU budget.

We don't want to see that money again every $ spent in Ukraine is way more saved on threats russia poses to us all

Yeah, that's fine, that's the idea.