{"id":1181963,"date":"2025-07-10T01:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/?p=1181963"},"modified":"2025-07-09T18:32:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:32:05","slug":"ukraine-will-need-more-than-40-billion-in-external-financing-in-2026-shmyhal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/ukraine-will-need-more-than-40-billion-in-external-financing-in-2026-shmyhal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine will need more than $40 billion in external financing in 2026 &#8211; Shmyhal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Despite the budget overperformance and economic growth, Ukraine still needs significant international support &#8211; in 2026, it is more than $40 billion.<br><br>This was stated by Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal in Telegram, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrinform.ua\/rubric-economy\/4013293-ukraina-potrebuvatime-ponad-40-milardiv-zovnisnogo-finansuvanna-u-2026-roci-smigal.html\">Ukrinform<\/a> reports.<br><br>&#8220;The key priority of the Ukrainian Donor Platform is the financial capacity of our country. We started URC-2025 with the 14th meeting of the Platform Steering Committee,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shmyhal reminded that in late June, the government submitted amendments to the state budget law, which provided for an increase in spending on the country&#8217;s defense capability by almost $10 billion, which will help to effectively counter the enemy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The total financial resource for defense and security in 2025 will amount to almost $50 billion. This is 26% of GDP,&#8221; the Prime Minister emphasized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, the budget for arms procurement, he said, is also a record and will amount to $16.4 billion. Instead, the budget&#8217;s own revenues will amount to $48.5 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThus, external financing is critically important for us, as it allows Ukraine to direct its own resources to the defense of our country,\u201d the Prime Minister emphasized.<br><br>&#8220;At the same time, 2026 is a challenge. Our external financing needs will remain at over $40 billion. The key task should be to develop mechanisms and tools that will allow us to attract these funds,&#8221; Shmyhal emphasized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For its part, the Cabinet of Ministers continues to work on consolidating internal resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThanks to the economic recovery and systemic changes, our state budget has been overfulfilled by USD 1 billion in the first 5 months of this year,\u201d the Prime Minister added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read also: Ukraine has agreed with the IMF and the World Bank to support economic recovery<br>As reported earlier, the EU financial assistance package of 6 billion euros scheduled for December is intended to cover the expected gap in financing Ukraine&#8217;s budget expenditures early next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the budget overperformance and economic growth, Ukraine still needs significant international &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":1181964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,49,36418,36415],"tags":[78],"sources":[],"class_list":["post-1181963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-en","category-11473-news-en-2","category-11473-news-en","tag-homepage-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ukraine will need more than $40 billion in external financing in 2026 - Shmyhal - Freedom<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/ukraine-will-need-more-than-40-billion-in-external-financing-in-2026-shmyhal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ukraine will need more than $40 billion in external financing in 2026 - Shmyhal - Freedom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Despite the budget overperformance and economic growth, Ukraine still needs significant international ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/ukraine-will-need-more-than-40-billion-in-external-financing-in-2026-shmyhal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Freedom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-09T22:02:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/630_360_1752073322-952.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"360\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"\u0410\u043d\u0442\u043e\u043d \u0428\u0440\u0430\u043c\u0447\u0435\u043d\u043a\u043e\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"\u0410\u043d\u0442\u043e\u043d \u0428\u0440\u0430\u043c\u0447\u0435\u043d\u043a\u043e\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/ukraine-will-need-more-than-40-billion-in-external-financing-in-2026-shmyhal\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/ukraine-will-need-more-than-40-billion-in-external-financing-in-2026-shmyhal\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\u0410\u043d\u0442\u043e\u043d \u0428\u0440\u0430\u043c\u0447\u0435\u043d\u043a\u043e\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/ec05b64cb7957f2edee871ad21ea2da9\"},\"headline\":\"Ukraine will need more than $40 billion in external financing in 2026 &#8211; 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