European Union leaders agreed early Friday (December 19, 2025) to provide 90 billion euros (around $105.5 billion) to support Ukraine over the next two years, European Council President António Costa announced.
“We have reached an agreement. The decision to provide assistance to Ukraine in the amount of 90 billion euros for the period 2026-2027 has been approved,” the official wrote on the social network X.
The heads of state and government of the 27 EU countries met for a summit in Brussels with a clear goal: to define a solution to finance Ukraine for the next two years.
The Europeans had promised to guarantee the bulk of financial and military support for Kiev after Donald Trump decided to turn off the American tap.
Long debates at the summit
But negotiations over how best to complete this financing continued into the early hours of the morning.
The option favored by Germany and the European Commission of resorting to Russian assets frozen in Europe was ruled out after four hours of debates between leaders behind closed doors and without phones.
However, Chancellor Friedrich Merz was satisfied with the outcome of the summit and assured that the EU had sent a “clear message” to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
EU leaders avoided “chaos and division,” Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever said at the end of the meeting in the early hours of Friday.
“We stuck together,” he emphasized.
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