{"id":1319876,"date":"2025-11-13T12:22:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T10:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraine-received-5-9-billion-euros-from-the-eu-what-will-the-funds-be-used-for\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T12:22:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T10:22:54","slug":"ukraine-received-5-9-billion-euros-from-the-eu-what-will-the-funds-be-used-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/ukraine-received-5-9-billion-euros-from-the-eu-what-will-the-funds-be-used-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine received 5.9 billion euros from the EU: what will the funds be used for?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The European Union has provided Ukraine with \u20ac5.9 billion in financial assistance. In particular, \u20ac4.1 billion came under the ERA Loans mechanism, which is the final tranche of a \u20ac18 billion program financed by frozen Russian assets. Another \u20ac1.8 billion was allocated through the Ukraine Facility. The funds are intended to support macro-financial stability, restore infrastructure and strengthen the economy during the war.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> The provision of funding <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/svyrydenkoy\/924\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">was announced<\/a> by Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Svyrydenko on her Telegram channel.<\/p>\n<p> She emphasized that the assistance is the result of the strategic partnership and trust between Ukraine and the EU and demonstrates European solidarity in the fight against Russian aggression.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;This is a concrete example of how Russia is beginning to be held accountable for its crimes,&#8221; Svyrydenko said, adding that the funding allows Ukraine to direct more domestic resources to defense and the protection of citizens.<\/p>\n<p> The Prime Minister thanked European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Commissioners Valdis Dombrovskis and Marta Kos for their leadership and continued support for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;This assistance saves lives, restores critical infrastructure, and supports the country&#8217;s economic stability even in the difficult conditions of war &#8211; the largest in Europe since World War II,&#8221; the Prime Minister emphasized.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Europe stands by Ukraine, and the aggressor will definitely pay. Justice will prevail,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/yes-nadast-ukraini-1-8-miliarda-ievro-dopomohy-kudy-spriamuiut-finansuvannia\/\">the Council of the European Union has approved the fifth tranche of macro-financial assistance to Ukraine under the Ukraine Facility program in the amount of EUR 1.8 billion.<\/a> The funds will be allocated to support macroeconomic stability and the smooth functioning of the public administration system.<\/p>\n<p> As reported, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/140-miliardiv-ievro-dlia-ukrainy-yes-hotuie-novyy-finansovyy-paket\/\">the European Commission has developed a new initiative that involves using the proceeds from frozen Russian assets to finance a large-scale loan to Ukraine.<\/a> This is an amount of 140 billion euros, which Kyiv will be able to receive to support the budget and strengthen the defense sector.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union has provided Ukraine with \u20ac5.9 billion in financial assistance. In particular, \u20ac4.1 billion came under the ERA Loans mechanism, which is the final tranche of a \u20ac18 billion program financed by frozen Russian assets. Another \u20ac1.8 billion was allocated through the Ukraine Facility. The funds are intended to support macro-financial stability, restore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1299910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76892],"class_list":["post-1319876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1299910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}