The European Commission has prepared a new project of financial assistance to Ukraine for 8 billion euros to replace the one previously blocked by Germany. It will be transferred Kyiv in the form of grants and loans. This was reported in the European bureau of the publication. Politico with reference to two EU officials.
Note that information about this appeared shortly after the Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky accused the European Union of unwillingness to give Ukraine 8 billion euros. This state of affairs, according to the president, is “a crime or a mistake.”
According to the new scheme, the EU, as the interlocutors of the publication explained, can allocate up to five billion euros of long-term loans under guarantees provided by European countries, based on their contribution to the EU budget. Interest payments will be subsidized from the EU budget.
The rest of the amount (about three billion euros), as emphasized in the publication, will be provided in the form of grants.
Earlier, Reuters reported that the United States was preparing to provide Ukraine with $1 billion in military aid.
