European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks ahead of a motion against the EC on October 6, 2025, at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France. PHOTO: Pascal Bastien / AP / Profimedia
The European Union has released a new tranche of financial aid for Ukraine, worth about six billion euros, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced on Thursday in the European Parliament, informs the DPA agency, taken over by Agerpres.
The financing of this new tranche comes from the “Mechanism for Ukraine” (also called the Facility for Ukraine), a fund established at the end of 2023 by the EU states to provide financial assistance to Ukraine in the war with Russia and which is provided with a financing of 50 billion euros for the period 2024-2027. Another source of financing is represented by the income generated by Russian assets frozen in the EU.
“Today, Putin continues to believe that he can outlast us. He still believes that, over time, Russia can achieve its goals on the battlefield,” noted Ursula von der Leyen. “But this is clearly a miscalculation,” she estimated.
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Since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the European Union has provided Kiev with financial, military and humanitarian aid totaling approximately 178 billion euros to date.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked Ursula von der Leyen “for her leadership and support of Ukraine”, in a message posted on the X social network after the announcement of the new tranche of financial aid offered by the EU. This aid “is already making Russia pay for its aggression,” Zelensky believes.
