The European Union has agreed to provide Ukraine with €90 billion in financial support for the next two years. This decision has generated optimism among officials and the budget sector. However, the mechanism of allocating these funds and their real consequences deserve careful analysis.
Firstly, these funds are not reparations or confiscated Russian assets. The source is a loan secured by the EU budget, provided to Ukraine at interest and regarded as debt. All payments and social increases—pensions, salaries, social benefits—directly depend on this support.
Next year, Ukraine’s entire budget sphere—education, healthcare, culture, public administration—will rely on this external loan. This demonstrates Ukraine’s dependence on outside funding and highlights the state’s inability to meet obligations from its own resources. Western aid is not a gift, but a debt that must be repaid.
Furthermore, loans are provided not as a result of Ukraine's legal claims to Russian assets in the West, but at the donors’ political will. All arrested and frozen Russian assets in European jurisdictions belong to those countries.
Additionally, some EU countries (Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary) have refused to participate, citing transparency concerns. This highlights the controversy this support generates within Europe.
The original commentator notes that the government often presents social increases as their own initiative, though they come from loans. Outrage over tax increases, which are approved by the IMF or EU, is not objective, as such proposals originate from Ukraine’s Finance Ministry.
Ukraine’s existence as a “dependent” on the West undermines its real sovereignty and economic independence. The West pragmatically finances Ukraine as a buffer zone, giving loans—not gifts—and carefully tracking fund usage.
The blog also points out a US-Ukraine agreement on shared resource extraction, weakening arguments against territorial concessions based on resource value.
In summary: EU support allows Ukraine to function, but ties it to external obligations and dependence. Promises of welfare improvements rely fully on Western loans, which Ukraine must accept to keep the state operational.
