Ukraine asks EU to buy Patriot missiles with €90 billion loan
Photo: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (Getty Images)
EU member states are already reviewing Ukraine's request to purchase missiles for the Patriot system. This involves several billion euros from a 90-billion-euro loan, according to European Pravda.
Ukraine has submitted a request to the European Commission to use several billion euros from a loan totaling 90 billion euros to purchase PAC-3 missiles for the Patriot air defense systems. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced this during a briefing in Brussels.
She says that the EU received a new request for disbursement that day, which amounts to several billion euros and is intended to cover Ukraine's air defense costs, including highly effective PAC-3 air defense systems.
According to von der Leyen, member states are currently reviewing Ukraine's request, and it is moving in the right direction.
How much has been allocated from loan so far
The President of the European Commission notes that the 90 billion euro loan to support Ukraine is already in effect. Since June, 8.5 billion euros have been allocated from it for drones and missiles for Ukraine, and these funds will also be used to purchase fighter jets from European manufacturers.
Own missile defense
Separately, von der Leyen notes that the EU is working with Ukraine to develop its own anti-ballistic missile systems—the Freya project. She mentions this outside the context of the loan disbursement, as a separate area of cooperation.
Ukraine is suffering from a critical shortage of missiles for the Patriot, NASAMS, and IRIS-T systems—in some units, stocks are nearly depleted.
Earlier, the EU announced the first tranche of a 90 billion euro loan for Ukraine for 2026–2027: 30 billion will go toward macro-financial assistance, and another 60 billion toward defense.
