EU lending to finance the war in Ukraine amounted to EUR 18 billion in 2024 and EUR 90 billion in 2025.

Omissions

• The €90 billion Ukraine Support Loan is presented by the ECA itself as 'adopted in early 2026' and was agreed by EU leaders in December 2025 to cover 2026-2027; presenting it as 2025 lending inflates the 2025 figure several-fold.
• The €18 billion amount matches the 2023 MFA+ programme per the European Commission, and separately the EU's roughly €18.1 billion share of the G7 loan agreed in 2024; no source found documents exactly €18 billion of loans disbursed in calendar year 2024.
• The claim attributes the figures to the European Court of Auditors, but the ECA publishes them as a cumulative total of approved/agreed loans since 2014 (about €170.1 billion), not as annual lending flows of €18 billion (2024) and €90 billion (2025).
• No source found (searches exhausted) giving the actual annual loan disbursement flow to Ukraine for 2024 and 2025, so the exact annual magnitudes could not be verified.
• The ECA report cited was published in October 2026, i.e. days before the plenary session; the underlying €90 billion loan decision dates from December 2025.

Sources

• PrimaryEuropean Court of Auditors — 2025 EU audit in brief (Annual Report on the 2025 EU budget)Including the €90 billion Ukraine Support Loan (USL) adopted in early 2026, the approved or agreed loans to Ukraine, backed by the headroom of the EU budget ...
• PrimaryEuropean Commission — Macro Financial Assistance+ for UkraineIn 2023, the EU provided under a dedicated MFA+ programme €18 billion in support to Ukraine.
• SecondaryEU Insider — 'EU Auditors Warn Next Budget Faces a Significant Shortfall Without New Revenue'Loans to Ukraine agreed or approved since 2014 total €170.1 billion, including a €90 billion [Ukraine Support Loan adopted in early 2026]
• SecondaryWAM (Emirates News Agency) — 'EU borrowing could reach €1 trillion by 2027, European Court of Auditors says'According to the Court, loans allocated or agreed for Ukraine since 2014 totalled approximately €170.1 billion, including a €90 billion loan [adopted in early 2026]
• SecondaryEuronews (Portuguese edition) — EU leaders' agreement on €90 billion for UkraineEU leaders will raise €90 billion in joint debt to finance Ukraine over the next two years (Portuguese original: 'Os líderes europeus vão levantar 90 mil milhões de euros em dívida conjunta para financiar a Ucrânia nos próximos dois anos').
• SecondarySofia Globe — 'European Court of Auditors: Estimated 3.8% of the EU budget was misspent in 2025'Loans to Ukraine approved or agreed since 2014 – including the 90 billion euro Ukraine aid loan decided in early 2026 – [total about €170.1 billion]