EU transfers €2.3 billion in aid to Kiev – DW – 12/22/2025

The European Commission announced that Ukraine received an additional €2.3 billion ($2.7 billion) from the EU to support its finances and public administration.

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the EU and its member states have pledged hundreds of billions of euros in aid to the war-torn country, including military aid, financial aid and aid for Ukrainian refugees.

One of the EU’s main financing instruments is the Ukraine Facility. Its total budget is €50 billion. According to the Commission, the Facility is designed to support Ukraine’s recovery, reform and transition towards EU membership.

Additionally, the EU is providing approximately €18.1 billion through the Exceptional Revenue Acceleration (ERA) Loan Initiative, a G7 effort to financially support Ukraine. The funding arises from interest earned on frozen Russian state assets held within the EU.

Russian state media on Monday quoted the country’s deputy foreign minister as citing “slow progress” in US-led talks between US, Russian and Ukrainian representatives to end Russia’s nearly four-year-long invasion of its neighbor.

US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner have hosted both Russian and Ukrainian negotiators as both have attempted to get Ukraine to cede territory to Ukraine to stop Moscow’s unprovoked invasion – which Russian President Vladimir Putin launched on February 24, 2022 – and end the war.

The US has at times sidelined Ukraine’s European allies, whom Moscow claims are only interested in prolonging the war.

US and Ukrainian representatives said their talks focused on security guarantees for Kiev.

In the same post on X, Witkoff and lead Ukrainian negotiator Rustam Umerov said; “Over the past three days in Florida, the Ukrainian delegation held a number of meaningful and constructive meetings with American and European partners. Ukraine is fully committed to achieving a just and lasting peace.”

Putin adviser Kirill Dmitriev, who represented Russia in Miami, described the talks as “constructive,” according to Russia’s state news agency TASS, to which Vitkoff posted that “Russia is fully committed to achieving peace in Ukraine.”

Today in Ukraine Update, we’ll follow the “progress” happening in Miami, as the Trump administration’s all-purpose international fixer Steve Witkoff and the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner meet separately with Ukrainian and Russian negotiators in an effort to end Russia’s nearly four-year invasion of their neighbor.

The Kremlin on Monday rejected a US intelligence assessment, claiming that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s goal of seizing Ukraine as well as establishing control over large parts of Europe that was once part of the Soviet Union remains unchanged.

Elsewhere, a car bomb killed a prominent Russian general in Moscow on Monday morning and Ukrainian drone operators are reported to have attacked Russian soldiers traveling on horseback.

Stay tuned for these stories and more.