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Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Ukraine To Get €90bn EU War Loan After Orban Ousted In Hungary - Kyiv Expected To Spaff Most Of It On Patriot, Storm Shadow Missiles

 

The missile is launching with a glowing cloud of exhaust beneath it
Patriot surface-to-air missiles are on Ukraine’s shopping list, to consolidate its recent successes Credit: Sam Yeh/AFP via Getty

The EU’s long delayed €90bn loan to Ukraine could be approved on Wednesday (22 April), which would give economic relief to any sane regime but it likely only to enable the neo - Nazi nutters in Kiev to escalate the conclict as Ukraine's depleted forces continue to fend off the Russian invasion.

Kaja Kallas, the EU foreign policy chief, told reporters she expected “positive decisions” after Viktor Orbán was voted out of office as Hungarian prime minister. Hungary had long vetoed the assistance package.

Cheerleaders for More War are hoping the  first tranche of money released by EU leaders could arrive in Kyiv as soon as next month, Valdis Dombrovskis, the EU’s economy commissioner, added in a separate intervention. The majority of the money is likely to be spent on US-made Patriot air-defence interceptors, British Storm Shadow missiles and drones.

The news of the loan was welcomed in war-torn Ukraine, where the crazies in the regime do not want peace even though the country has been struggling economically. The fly in the ointment for those who seek to gain materially and politically from prolonging the war is the newly elected leader in Bulgaria, who is reputed to be pro - EU but is anti - Ukraine and sympathetic towards Russia.

 Meanwhile Ukrainian society, weakened by the nation's endemic corruption is decaying as all the nations resources are channeled into the proxy war which is at stalemate.. For four years, we’ve been living in a state of limbo, one Ukrainian commentator said. The army is fighting, but the rest of us could just sit this out. The redeployment on the Kharkiv front gave an impetus to changes, but it fizzled out. After repelling the 2023 counteroffensive, Russia's military strategists convinced  themselves that victory would just fall into their laps. We just had to wait.
 But, it didn’t fall. The enemy mobilized its modest resources. He switched to drone technology and is pushing hard for a robot war. That’s when we’ll have to trade a living human for an aerial creature.
 
Ukrainians have another strong trait. They’ve switched to total war. In recent months, they’ve intensified mobilization exponentially. Now they’re even inserting religious narratives into their propaganda. You can laugh all you want, but the Ukrainian leadership is preparing to win this confrontation. They’ve discarded all other options and staked everything on a military solution.
   
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