{"id":1334216,"date":"2025-12-18T10:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T08:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/european-council-prepares-decision-on-reparation-loan-for-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T10:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T08:40:08","slug":"european-council-prepares-decision-on-reparation-loan-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/european-council-prepares-decision-on-reparation-loan-for-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"European Council prepares decision on reparation loan for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Diplomats from the European Union countries have reached a preliminary agreement on using frozen Russian assets to provide Ukraine with a so-called “reparations loan” in 2026\u20132027. The final decision is to be made by EU leaders during a meeting of the European Council.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is stated<\/a> in the draft conclusions of the European Council for December 18-19, the text of which was reviewed by the correspondent of “European Truth”.<\/p>\n

According to sources, the main mechanism for financing Ukraine could be the use of Russian assets currently blocked in EU banks. The implementation of this option depends on the final approval of the leaders of the member states and the agreement of the details at the level of the Council and the European Parliament.<\/p>\n

The draft document states that “the European Council calls on the Council and the European Parliament to urgently adopt instruments establishing a ‘reparation loan’ based on the cash balances related to frozen Russian assets, in order to provide the necessary financial support to Ukraine, starting in the second quarter of 2026, including for its military needs.”<\/p>\n

Diplomats stress that Thursday’s discussion will be devoted to agreeing on the scope of guarantees and instruments that all EU countries will arrange. The assets planned to be used could be distributed proportionally among all member states and also be coordinated with the EU’s bilateral investment treaties with Russia.<\/p>\n

“This is not a typical European Council session where you can simply disperse without a result. The final decision on support for Ukraine will be made public on Friday morning,” said a senior EU diplomat.<\/p>\n

He also noted that the lack of an agreed funding mechanism for 2026\u20132027 will deprive Ukraine of resources for defense, which could have serious consequences for the security of the entire European Union.<\/p>\n

As a reminder, the European Union has decided to freeze the assets of the Central Bank of Russia stored in Europe for an indefinite period.<\/a><\/p>\n

As reported, British banks have opposed the transfer of frozen Russian assets worth more than \u00a38 billion (about $10.6 billion) to Ukraine<\/a> , warning of serious legal risks and possible lawsuits from Russia.<\/p>\n

By the way, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that he had asked Russian President Vladimir Putin what Moscow’s reaction would be if the European Union decided to use frozen Russian assets<\/a> . According to Orban, he heard in response that Budapest’s position on this issue would be “taken into account” in Russia.<\/p>\n

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Diplomats from the European Union countries have reached a preliminary agreement on using frozen Russian assets to provide Ukraine with a so-called “reparations loan” in 2026\u20132027. The final decision is to be made by EU leaders during a meeting of the European Council. This is stated in the draft conclusions of the European Council for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1327989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76885,76892],"class_list":["post-1334216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-policy","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334216","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=1334216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1327989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1334216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1334216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}